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City Helps Teenager Turn Hot Dog Stand into Licensed Business
When the Minneapolis Department of Health received a complaint about an unlicensed vendor selling hot dogs, they chose to view him not as a shady lawbreaker, ...
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Searching for Elusive Treasure
Last summer, 53-year-old Jeff Murphy was hiking in Yellowstone National Park when he disappeared. Park investigators found his body on June 9, where Murphy ...
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Robin Williams Discovered that Work Is No Solace
Robin Williams's August 2014 suicide was devastating to those who knew him best—and it also came at the end of a long and difficult decline. According ...
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When We Are Connected to Each Other We Thrive
In his book Being Mortal, Medical Doctor Atul Gawande describes the story of Bill Thomas, a man who in the 1990s started working as the medical director ...
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Harvard Professor Worries 'Is Life Cosmically Irrelevant?'
Harvard professor James Wood, in a New Yorker article "Is That All There Is?" tells of a friend, a philosopher and a convinced atheist, who sometimes ...
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Amazing Little Bird Follows God-Given Homing Signal
According to Robert Krulwich's blog on NPR, a small bird called the bar-tailed godwit grows up in northern Alaska, but every fall they fly nearly 7,000 ...
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Driver Leads Police in a Chase Because of His 'Bucket List'
"The world is peppered with people who can coax small seeds of inspiration into richly flowering ideas that put humankind on a better path. And then there's ...
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John Mellancamp Needs Time Before Death
At the age of 65, musician John Mellencamp reflected on "what's left" for him in life. Mellencamp said, "I intend to make my ending ...
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Pluralism Is Like a Sport without Rules
I love sports. But here is a sporting experience I would never want to have. Imagine being thrown into a game without knowing when it started, when it ...
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4th Grader Applies for NASA Position
When NASA posted a job opening recently for a "Planetary Protection Officer," a position responsible for the microbial footprint of humans during interplanetary ...
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