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January 2, 2015 5:28 AM

Seinfeld as a teacher of psychiatry

You were doing medical school-level work back in the day when you watched Seinfeld.

by Bob Collins

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January 2, 2015 4:43 AM

The dying art of playing the piano

Trust me, kids. You're going to regret giving up the piano lessons.

by Bob Collins

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January 2, 2015 3:45 AM

The $75 truck survives 38 years of commuting

By around this time next month we'll be knee-deep in pitches for us to buy new cars. The new vehicles, you may have heard, allow you to read Facebook while you drive, impress your neighbors, and satisfy your need to buy something -- anything as dictated by the new definition of a good American.

by Bob Collins

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January 2, 2015 2:30 AM

Remembering the man who helped women be miners

Lost in the holiday diversions this week was the death of Paul Sprenger, who died on Monday while vacationing in Curacao.

by Bob Collins

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January 1, 2015 1:23 PM

Mario Cuomo’s greatest speech

Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who died today shortly after his son was inaugurated into another term into his dad's former job, may well go down as one of the few politicians unable to parlay a stemwinder political convention's keynote speech into a subsequent endorsement for president.

by Bob Collins

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December 31, 2014 1:17 PM

Report questions investigation that cleared Norm Coleman benefactor

There's no better example of the appearance of questionable ethics in politics than the once brewing 2008 scandal in which a lawsuitclaimed a Minnesota businessman tried to bribe then-Sen. Norm Coleman by funeling money to a business employing Coleman's wife.

by Bob Collins

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December 31, 2014 6:28 AM

Psst! It’s the best time to be alive

World, we have a problem. The year we're leaving behind was the safest, healthiest, happiest year in human history but you don't believe it, writes Scott Gilmore today on Maclean's. The world has never been more peaceful, there has never been less poverty, and our societies have never been healthier. So what's the problem? Why do we feel as if things have never been worse?

by Bob Collins

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December 31, 2014 5:27 AM

Ice Man Roger moves north

Roger Hanson won't be making his ice tower in Big Lake this year. Superior, Wisconsin has hired him away to make the world's largest ice tower in the city.

by Bob Collins

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December 31, 2014 2:31 AM

Lauren Hill makes her goal

Lauren Hill, the Cincinnati woman who is dying from a brain tumor, has reached another goal. The basketball player wanted to raise a million dollars for cancer research by the end of the year. In the last minutes of a telethon, someone threw $100,000 in.

by Bob Collins