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Biobusiness project gets injection of DEED funding

Biobusiness project gets injection of DEED funding

The Elk Run Biobusiness park project planned for an area near Rochester will get an injection of cash from the state.
by Sea Stachura

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Moose population steady in Voyageurs National Park

Moose population steady in Voyageurs National Park

A recent aerial survey shows moose in Voyageurs National Park holding their own.

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Midmorning Weekend

Midmorning Weekend

The new Midmorning Weekend show revisits some of the best recent conversations from the daily call-in program.

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U of M exhibit celebrates 200 years of Darwin

U of M exhibit celebrates 200 years of Darwin

If you've been looking for a way to observe today's 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, it's not too late. A new exhibit opens this evening at the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
by Dan Olson

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Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts

Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts

Solving the case of the poison processed peanuts took marathon work by federal scientists, clues in Canada, Oregon, Ohio and Connecticut, and a breakthrough in Minnesota at the hands of public health hotshots known as Team Diarrhea.

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Midmorning Weekend

Midmorning Weekend

The first installment of the new Midmorning Weekend show revisits some of the best recent conversations from the daily program.

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Watchdog site crowdsources stimulus spending

Watchdog site crowdsources stimulus spending

President Obama is promising to use the Web site Recovery.gov to track spending under the economic stimulus bill passed by the U.S. House and being considered by the Senate. But that site hasn't been built yet. Until then, you can follow requests for stimulus money coming from local governments on Stimulus Watch. The new site relies on public contributions - a process sometimes called "crowdsourcing" - to help monitor stimulus spending.

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Friday Follow: The ethics of octuplets

Friday Follow: The ethics of octuplets

Public amazement at octuplets born to a California woman soon turned to dismay, after suspicions that the babies were conceived with too many implanted embryos. Midmorning discusses the issues that arise from in vitro fertilization.

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