Bob Collins
Dick and Rick Hoyt didn’t want a big name to help continue their tradition of running the Boston Marathon every year. They wanted a big heart.
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Archives for April 2015
A study of 2 million people found that those who were thinnest were far more likely to develop dementia. Read more →
She was given only until December to live. But she wanted to play a game for her college basketball team. She did, and then she spent her remaining days raising money for cancer research. Read more →
Though we’re always suspicious of headlines that suggest something may happen — because it may not, but how newsy is that? — we’re at least tempted to consider the consequences of legislation passed in good faith. Read more →
Bert Blyleven, the Twins broadcaster, might have learned a valuable lesson today. When your team stinks and it has turned in four straight 90-loss seasons, it’s probably not smart to criticize the city that’s won five straight division titles and, oh by the way, has shut out your squad in the first two games of the season.
It started with this tweet during the rain delay of today’s no-contest between the Twins and Tigers.
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With its familiarity, space is boring to many Americans today, which makes us wonder whether today’s commemoration can ever adequately be appreciated by future generations. Read more →
It’s believed that only one in three rape victims report their attack. It’s not something we didn’t already know. Darren Sharper’s case, though, shows it’s something that doesn’t seem to change.
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As you get older, you start to get a little used to the small indignities that remind you that you’re too old to be of much use. Be the Match told me today I’m too old to donate marrow. Read more →
The state’s grand champion jack pine tree is no more.
It was a good run for the tree in a Mountain Iron neighborhood — two days, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
But after receiving its crown, it was cut down.
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A new survey says nearly 9% of people in the United States have outbursts of anger, break or smash things, or get into physical fights — and have access to a firearm, the Los Angeles Times reports. Read more →
There will be no authorized anti-abortion clubs in the Fargo school district.
Two students — Brigid O’Keefe of Fargo North High School and Katie McPherson of Davies High School — tried to start the clubs, but they were stopped by administrators. Read more →
Alan Page, the former Minnesota Viking and current justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, will turn 70 in August, and by the end of that month, he has to retire. It’s the law in Minnesota.
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Turning aside a request from the Star Tribune, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that data from an agency created by the Minnesota Legislature to help high-risk doctors, hospitals and nursing homes get malpractice insurance can stay secret. Read more →
If ever there was a reason the NCAA should scrap its rules on student-athlete eligibility, Baylor football player Silas Nacita is it. Read more →
Attention, Alaska Airlines: Cancer isn’t contagious.
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