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Zach Carlsen, of Stillwater, had a 'crazy idea' last year, he acknowledges. He'd wear the same outfit every day for a year as part of a personal mission to minimize the number of small decisions he makes every day and focus his energy on bigger things.
Aaron Parmlet, a sheriff's deputy in Butte County, Calif. thought he was done for. The flames from the northern California wildfire were on all sides of him when his police car broke down. And he still hadn't found nurses he was sent to rescue.
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1,000 Words:  Positively 5th Street
I don't really have any words.
'(We) made a vow to never pass up a photobooth,' Betz Petersen tells KARE. 'Like, as long as we were dating, it was just never pass up a photo booth.'
What was so important on Netflix that Taylor Thiets, 20, of Maplewood, had to watch it while driving 70 mph on I-94 before crashing between Rothsay and Fergus Falls? We can't know, apparently.
You can be forgiven if your first reaction to Gautum Mereddy's story in the Duluth Tribune is, 'his parents must have really pushed the kid.' Mereddy, a student at Duluth East, received perfect scores on all five of the ACT and SAT tests he took. Nope. They were 'hands off,' he said.
Science: Dogs aren’t that smart. Dog owners: ‘Shut it’
A new journal article says dogs fared poorly compared to cats, wolves, chimps and pigeons when it came to intelligence, But there's something pigeons, wolves and chimps can't do: keep you alive.
If you've raised kids, you know that the day you drop them off at school is among the most heartbreaking days for a parent. They don't need you anymore, at least during school hours. For most parents, they soon realize it's among the most joyous moments; they've got part of their lives back. At least during school hours. Of course, you actually have to have a life for that to be of any value and too many people in Darien, Conn., don't, apparently.
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