Tag: people
group name: mnlife
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November 10, 2006 03:06 PM EST --
Do you have a Thanksgiving or holiday meal dilemma? A turkey-related question? Curiosity about some holiday trivia?
This is your chance to ask Lynne Rossetto Kasper of The Splendid Table (and her guests) . . . more
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August 14, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
Two weeks ago at a supermarket two streets over from the office where I work, I bought a few items for lunch. The cashier asked me if I wanted my items in a bag. When I told her yes, she licked . . . more
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October 31, 2006 10:23 AM EST --
So Brett Baldwin was talking about Butterfinger Crisp right? He went on about how absolutely delicious they are, how crispy and sweet, how those candy wizards actually perfected the Butterfinger by removing . . . more
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April 16, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
Over a thousand miles separates St. Paul, Minnesota and Blacksburg, Virginia, but the news distributes stories fast these days. From Minnesota Public Radio Gunman kills 32 at Virginia Tech shooting . . . more
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July 04, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
It's typical... it's cliche... and I love it.
Family on the Fourth.
Hey, if you want edgy... go read something else.
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July 08, 2008 10:42 PM EDT --
I swore off the whole damn thing not a week ago. I vowed that I would shun for the rest of the baseball season a team that I had long rooted for - the New York Mets.
"resolute" . . . more
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June 25, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
You learn as a parent ... continually. And usually it's a lesson on your shortcomings.
One recent lesson starts like this: Kids have moods for the same reason we all do. Because sometimes you . . . more
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April 01, 2007 01:20 AM EDT --
This article was written by Sean Wilentz, who is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. it was originaly printed in Rolling Stone Magazine and has since been nominated . . . more
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May 13, 2006 12:27 PM EDT --
<h1 style="">About me</h1>
Born at 10:04am proving early on that I was NOT a morning person.
My first "playpen" was a bushel basket.
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September 20, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
Well, it has been a quiet week in mine. The neighbors are visible more, doing their various lawn tending chores and waving from their work with rakes, and brooms. Our neighbor to the north has been out . . . more
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December 19, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
In Games people play, Minnesota Public Radio's Nikki Tundel does it again. She reports on the increasing sales of board games and the changing nature of board games:
Then:
Payday
The Game of Life . . . more
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July 30, 2007 09:00 AM EDT --
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning takes on a topic Gather members might find compelling in Good blog, bad blog:
One digital media critic claims that user-generated content from bloggers and citizen . . . more
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December 30, 2006 03:43 PM EST --
We were sitting in the living room when the news anchor announced: Saddam Hussein was put to death. I had heard rumblings that it was “imminent”, “soon to happen”, . . . more
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May 24, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
In the latest "What are you reading?" discussion I noticed a few people mentioned reading aloud, myself included. It made me wonder how many people read aloud and how they do it.
Despite . . . more
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January 17, 2008 09:31 PM EST --
At Minnesota Public Radio we had a forum discussion on the environment (there will be more about this later). But even in this context, it was amazing how the economic slide made its way into the conversation. . . . more
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June 30, 2008 10:29 PM EDT --
Tell me if you uber-amateur musicians have this experience.
I pick up the old axe (well, it's a cheap Fender acoustic so maybe axe isn't the right word)... maybe pocket knife.
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September 27, 2006 08:57 PM EDT --
Hey Julia!
I was just thinking about that old table cloth, and when I got it after I moved into my first unfurnished apartment sometime in 1965.
I bought some nice oak furniture a good couch and chair, . . . more
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December 12, 2006 09:20 AM EST --
Before you think of this as the boring, requisite gadgets-as-presents discussion that happens every year at the holidays, let me say this:
I don't like giving gadgets as presents.
Really! First of . . . more
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February 13, 2007 11:35 AM EST --
From Minnesota Public Radio News feature Should Minnesota mandate cancer vaccine?:
Lawmakers at the state Capitol are debating whether to require 12-year-old girls to get a vaccine that prevents some . . . more
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May 21, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
MPR's series "Death Becomes Us" has me wondering how you deal with death and remember your dead friends and family. From the project:
Throughout history, civilizations have developed ways . . . more
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