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1 hr ago | MediLexicon

Researchers Develop Model For Better Testing, Targeting Of MPNST

Researchers from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, and the University's Brain Tumor Program, have developed a new mouse model of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors that allow them to discover new genes and gene pathways driving this type of cancer.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine, Biology, Science, Sarcoma

5 hrs ago | Daily Camera

Afternoon Drive: Selling beer at games and key players for CU football

If handled correctly, selling beer and wine at college football stadiums and basketball arenas can be a profitable endeavor for universities.

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Wed May 22, 2013

The Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Forestivew fifth-graders get a first-hand look at how to be safe

Watching a crash test dummy being thrown around like a rag doll in a roll-over simulator gave 500 fifth-graders at Forestview Middle School in Baxter a good idea of what could happen if they didn't wear their seat belts.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Baxter, MN, Brainerd, MN, Crow Wing County, MN

KSFY

Exclusive: How a South Dakota native tried to stop Vietnam

We're going to tell you a little known story about a South Dakota native who challenged a president to end a war.

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Related Topix: Suicide, US News, Minnesota

Pulse of the Twin Cities

Music Everywhere

Propping up the Fourth Estate by DWIGHT HOBBES Bill Borea, anchor of Minneapolis Television Network's cablecast forum 'Spectator' , is, to say the least, a well-rounded fella.

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Related Topix: Minnesota, Weight Training, Fitness

KDLT-TV Sioux Falls

Dairy Economist To Speak At South Dakota State May. 22

A University of Minnesota dairy economist will speak at South Dakota University on Wednesday about current federal dairy legislation.

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The Miami Herald

Pollen count apps for smartphones are nothing to sneeze at

Kate O'Reilly's spring allergy survival kit includes the usual stuff - nasal sprays, allergy pills and a box of tissues.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Allergy, Health, Allergy and Immunology, Woodbury, MN, Maple Grove, MN

Home Accents Today

Groovystuff by Design student contest winners announced

Dallas - Home furnishings manufacturer Groovystuff announced the names of the four student winners of its "Groovystuff by Design: Connecting Education with Industry Challenge." Students Ian O'Hare , Ami Seuki , Malachi Payne and Bethany DeLine placed first from their respective schools in the popular vote, conducted at the spring High Point Market, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Appalachian State University, North Carolina State University, University of Idaho, Interior Design, Arts, Industrial Design (Product Design)

Tue May 21, 2013

Patch.com

U of M Law Prof on MN Gay Marriage: David FitzSimmons Is 'Hero' for Religious Freedom

Minnesota state Rep. David FitzSimmons "made himself a hero for the cause [of] religious freedom" with his " civil marriage" amendment to what is now the state's new law permitting same-sex marriages .

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Related Topix: Wedding, Minnesota, Minnesota Government, Gay/Lesbian, Albertville, MN

KAAL-TV Austin

Planting Conditions Much Improved in Minnesota

A miserable start to spring planting for Minnesota farmers has greatly improved with a stretch of better weather.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Weather

Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

Lateral hires with tenure, 2012-13

Margaret Barry from Catholic University Columbus School of Law to Vermont Law School June Carbone from the University of Missouri, Kansas City to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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Related Topix: Vermont Law School, University of Missouri Kansas City, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, University of Louisville

TwinCities

Roseville man's conviction upheld in fatal hit-run in Dinkytown

An appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of Timothy Bakdash of Roseville, who is serving 40 years for the booze-fueled hit-and-run killing of a Wisconsin man.

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Related Topix: Roseville, MN, Minneapolis, MN, St. Paul, MN

Star Tribune

Push for gender-neutral language continues

Washington state's Legislature recently decreed that all statutes be rewritten to incorporate gender-neutral language.

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Star Tribune

What's in, what's out as 2013 session closes

Income tax, cigarette tax increases are in, along with $585 million for Mayo/Rochester and all-day kindergarten.

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Related Topix: Minnesota, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Mon May 20, 2013

Medical News Today

Sensors For Heart Devices, Consumer Electronics, Vulnerable To Certain Security Risks

Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Cardiovascular / Cardiology ; Public Health Article Date: 20 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory ... (more)

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Related Topix: University of South Carolina, Bluetooth, Health

Insurance Journal West

Maguire Agency's Sundeen Named Minnesota Agent of the Year

Matt Sundeen, vice president of sales and commercial lines producer at Maguire Agency, has been named Agent of the Year for 2013 by the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers .

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Related Topix: Roseville, MN

World Magazine

Ball State investigating intelligent design class

Ball State University is looking into complaints by evolutionists that a science and religion class using material on intelligent design material is promoting Christianity to its students.

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Related Topix: Evolution Debate, Ball State University, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, University of Chicago

The Atlantic

The Tyra Banks Matriarchy: A Scholar's Take on America's Next Top Model

In honor of the beloved reality show's 10th birthday, a conversation with Rhonda Loverude, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on hegemonic heterosexuality in ANTM Over the course of its run, the dramatic Tyra Banks-hosted modeling competition-in which contestants try to out-fierce one another on the runway and in photo shoots to win a contract at ... (more)

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Related Topix: America's Next Top Model, Reality TV, Entertainment

Business Journal

Top 10 tips for grads from Steve Blank

The decision to be an entrepreneur came when he chose to "Do" rather than to "Be." That bit of advice and nine other insights grabbed us from the speech he gave to University of Minnesota engineering graduates last week.

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The Modesto Bee

Polygraph device can easily produce errors

Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a certain type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem, McClatchy Newspapers has found.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Psychology, Science