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The Minnesota Twins have banned e-cigarettes before anyone has done enough studies to determine whether the  vapors are  harmful to anyone. 

 the ballclub recently added the "nooooo e-cigarettes" announcement to its patented no-smoking advisory, leading some to wonder why not?

“It just smells like what you’re vaping on, so if you’re vaping on lemonade, it just smells like lemonade,” the owner of an e-cigarette shop said.

The move to e-cigarettes corresponds not only to the smoking ban, but also to the recent increase in the state's cigarette tax.

"We don’t know what they are emitting into the air.” Anne Joseph, a tobacco researcher at the University of Minnesota, tells the 

That's enough for an outright ban on them, 

, although those who disagree note that plenty of products emit more chemicals into the air than e-cigarettes. And, ironically, Target Field is downwind -- sometimes -- from a Hennepin County garbage burner.

We know. The empty nest can be a cruel thing, as many parents are about to find out when they send the last formerly little one off to college in a week or so.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson 

No truer words were spoken than the ones that you heard so often you rolled your eyes when the kid first came home from the hospital: They grow up so fast.

First it was too wet. Now it's too dry. The crop was expected to be poor. Then it was 

So why don't older farmers just give up and do something else?

There's nothing better for a college freshman than hearing "your tuition this semester is on the house."

 by taking a basketball shot during the school's "welcome week" festivities.

The letter was sent to the grandmother of a  13-year-old Max Begley's  in Newcastle, Ontario, on Friday.  It has had unintended consequences, however. The neighbors have united 

In South Dakota, Beef Jerky, Swimming, and a Search for Spiritual Relief.

Winonan Gary Dare papers the town with planes

What do you think of the new endangered species list for Minnesota?

 - First hour: Rep. Tim Walz and Rep. Collin Peterson.

Second hour: An update on the Minnesota Orchestra lockout.

Third hour: In her first book, Coming Up Short, Jennifer Silva suggests that current media depicts the struggles of millenials from the perspective that they all come from upper-middle to upper-class backgrounds. From her own experiences and based on her research, she found a whole class of millienials who similarly struggle in finding employment and financial stability. However, these millennials tend to not have the same safety net or choices their counterparts have.  The Daily Circuit will talk with Silva and Nona Willis Aronowitz about their research and what they would suggest to ensure America doesn’t let a group of young people fall through the cracks.

 (12-1 pm): From the Aspen Ideas Festival: The director of the Centers for Disease Control, Tom Frieden  on "What Does the CDC do to Protect You?"

 - The Conflict in Egypt: A Proxy for Competing Ideologies in the Middle East.

- The HBO. series Treme provides a taste of everyday peoples lives in post-Katrina New Orleans. And it's inspired a book that can provide an actual taste of their legendary, everyday cuisine. Recipes from the shows characters make up the Treme cookbook. One of writers behind that book and the show joins NPR's segments to talk about the flavor of New Orleans.

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The e-cigarette debate, the empty nest,  why farmers don't quit, a free shot at college, and hate 101.

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