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Three wishes, sleeping outdoors for a year, and how an iconic photo happened (5×8 -12/23/13)

Three wishes, sleeping outdoors for a year, and how an iconic photo happened (5×8 -12/23/13)

Iowa woman’s wishes granted, two years after she died. Plus: sleeping outside for a year, how three men captured the first earthrise ever witnesses, the nipple artist, and fulfilling the Christmas wishes of soldiers’ kids.
by Bob Collins

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Scattering C.J.

Scattering C.J.

Is there anything social networking can’t do? Since he took his own life, C.J. Twomey has sat in an urn in his home in Maine. His mother didn’t want him to remain there so she enlisted social networking sites to spread his ashes around the world. People volunteered to scatter the ashes, and his mother…
by Bob Collins

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Why would someone carry propane on an airplane?

Why would someone carry propane on an airplane?

It's possible today's story about a woman who tried to get a tank of propane on an airplane isn't as crazy as it first sounds.
by Bob Collins

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Ducks, Dixie Chicks, racist mascots and the First Amendment

Many Americans, this week’s news stories confirm, don’t have a clue what the First Amendment says or what it means.
by Bob Collins

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A new home for the homeless (5×8 – 12/20/13)

A new home for the homeless (5×8 – 12/20/13)

Moving Saint Paul's homeless, how public radio and TV cover news differently, a new hand for Harmony, Story Corps: the movie, and the day in Christmas videos.
by Bob Collins

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If it quacks like a racist duck …

If it quacks like a racist duck …

Duck Dynasty “patriarch” Phil Robertson’s racial and social views don’t square with A&E.
by Bob Collins

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Envisioning ‘The Yard,’ a crumbling archdiocese defense, and giving birth like a virgin (5×8 – 12/19/13)

Envisioning ‘The Yard,’ a crumbling archdiocese defense, and giving birth like a virgin (5×8 – 12/19/13)

Getting The Yard right, Nienstedt’s defense crumbles, giving birth like a virgin, what it’s like to try to use the MNsure site, and the Yule Log video’s director’s cut.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob – 12/18/13

The new boss at MNsure acknowledges things have been ‘rocky,’ has there been a credit card security breach at Target, holiday sales haven’t been much to write home about, the Fed reduces support for the economy, and U.S. students are smoking more marijuana, but backing away from binge drinking.
by Bob Collins

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