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In Canada, a penny for a soldier’s service

In Canada, a penny for a soldier’s service

Oh, Canada! Cpl. Justin Stark, an infantry soldier with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, killed himself in October 2011. He was just 22 years old. Stark had been on a a seven-month tour in Afghanistan that started in 2010, including patrolling Nakhonay, a village southwest of Kandahar city. Nobody really knows what pushed…
by Bob Collins

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Flexible tolls and the price of saving time

Flexible tolls and the price of saving time

Why do people pay a high toll price on MnPASS roads when there’s no real calculation how much time they’ll save?
by Bob Collins

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P.O.S. gets a kidney

P.O.S. gets a kidney

For more than a year, Stefon Alexander, the Twin Cities rapper who performs as P.O.S., has been looking for a kidney. His musician pals, DoomTree, crowdfunded the cost, raising more than $47,000 for the procedure, well over the initial $25,000 goal. Finding a kidney turned out to be harder.
by Bob Collins

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Wait, don’t tell me Carl Kasell is retiring!

Wait, don’t tell me Carl Kasell is retiring!

The only thing that made Carl Kasell’s retirement from NPR acceptable, was that he’d still be on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me every week. Now, that’s ending too. Kasell announced today he’s retiring from the show. “My favorite time at NPR has been Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! It was loads of fun and gave Read more →
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Radio Shack and the death of do-it-yourself

Radio Shack and the death of do-it-yourself

We still tinker with software, but hardware, the very infrastructure of our wired and unwired lives? Not so much. We're generally content if something just works.
by Bob Collins

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The 97-year-old woman who fought for her driver’s license

The 97-year-old woman who fought for her driver’s license

Evelyn lost her driver’s license because someone thought she was too old to drive. But she wasn’t too old to fight back for her neighbor.
by Bob Collins

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N.J. teen sues parents to pay for college

They’re so cute when their small. Then they hit the teenage years, tell you how much they hate you and how they wish they’d never been born, they go into their room for a few years and come out and tell you what college they want you to pay for. That’s the typical cycle of parenthood life. Everybody gets over it. Eventually.
by Bob Collins

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Behind the propaganda in the Russia-Ukraine showdown

Behind the propaganda in the Russia-Ukraine showdown

“Has it ever before happened that people associated with Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Armenian, Polish, and Jewish culture have died in a revolution that was started by a Muslim? Can we who pride ourselves in our diversity and tolerance think of anything remotely similar in our own histories?” Timothy Snyder asks in his marvelous recap of Read more →
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