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Yang family
Mee Yang, right, the widow of Jason Yang, receives support from her aunt, Zoua Vang. Jason Yang died early Saturday when running away from police. Minneapolis police say the Northwestern College graduate and father of four jumped off a freeway ramp and fell several stories to his death.
MPR Photo/Laura Yuen

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This week, the U of M got a new president, we looked at the state of local foods in Minnesota and visited nurses prepping to take care of the elderly.

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Toy piano
Composer John Glover plays a toy piano in the opera "Our Basic Nature." The opera was inspired by a Radiolab installment about a chimp who was raised as human then put out into the wild.
MPR Photo/Chris Roberts
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Yang family
Mee Yang, right, the widow of Jason Yang, receives support from her aunt, Zoua Vang. Jason Yang died early Saturday when running away from police. Minneapolis police say the Northwestern College graduate and father of four jumped off a freeway ramp and fell several stories to his death.
MPR Photo/Laura Yuen
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Eric and Karen Kaler
Eric Kaler and his wife, Karen, wait in the hall at the McNamara Alumni Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, as the school's Board of Regents vote on whether to award him the job of University of Minnesota President.
MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel