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Surveys and trivia

What do high school students excel at? Cheating

Bob Collins May 12, 2010, 11:45 AM May 12, 2010

A study says most high school students cheat.

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The price of motherhood

Bob Collins May 8, 2010, 8:00 AM May 8, 2010

How much is motherhood worth?

Surveys and trivia · The jobs we do

Workplace meltdowns

Bob Collins March 29, 2010, 1:48 PM Mar 29, 2010

Perhaps you’ve had days at work like Jim Playfair

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‘Miss me’ wars

Bob Collins March 25, 2010, 10:18 AM Mar 25, 2010

Texas fires another shot in the billboard battle.

Surveys and trivia

The new penny

Bob Collins February 18, 2010, 2:50 PM Feb 18, 2010

Why do we still have pennies?

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The lure of the trivial

Bob Collins February 13, 2010, 11:12 AM Feb 13, 2010

Efforts to gauge reader interest by the most-emailed feature of Web sites are doomed to failure.

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Sleeping in airports

Bob Collins February 10, 2010, 12:36 PM Feb 10, 2010

Minneapolis St. Paul has been selected as the 5th-best airport in the country to sleep in.

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Billboard mystery partly revealed

Bob Collins February 9, 2010, 11:41 AM Feb 9, 2010

Local businesspeople responsible for “Miss me?” billboard in Wyoming.

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The mystery billboard

Bob Collins February 8, 2010, 10:40 AM Feb 8, 2010

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A billboard on I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota is becoming an Internet sensation.

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Skiplanes on Lake Calhoun

Bob Collins January 11, 2010, 3:00 PM Jan 11, 2010

A couple of pilots got in trouble for landing on a Minneapolis lake.

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Timewasters: The book of cold

Bob Collins January 5, 2010, 1:22 PM Jan 5, 2010

If you could write a book about Minnesota weather, what would you call it?

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About that decade

Bob Collins December 21, 2009, 1:01 PM Dec 21, 2009

Have the 2000’s really been the worst decade in 50 years?

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Now, we dance

Bob Collins December 15, 2009, 3:04 PM Dec 15, 2009

Among the important questions facing mankind is this one: Do men become better dancers as they get older, or do they just think they do?

Surveys and trivia

Violence on TV

Bob Collins December 10, 2009, 1:45 PM Dec 10, 2009

Too much time, too much money, too much liquor spells the end of a perfectly good television.

Surveys and trivia · Weather

The Golden Snowball Competition

Bob Collins December 8, 2009, 2:13 PM Dec 8, 2009

Some people sit in wooden boxes on lakes staring at a hole in the ice; some people invent games to get through winter.