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• Fargo moves cleanup week as flood looms
  The annual event allows residents to put most items -- large and small -- on the curb for pickup by city garbage crews. It had been scheduled for early May.April 23, 2013
• Want more gender equality at work? Go to an emerging market
  A White House report puts it bluntly: "Today, younger women are more likely to graduate from college than are men and are more likely to hold a graduate school degree."April 22, 2013
• What does modern prejudice look like?
  Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji was once approached by a reporter for an interview. When Banaji heard the name of the magazine the reporter was writing for, she declined the interview: She didn't think much of the magazine and believed it portrayed research in psychology inaccurately.April 22, 2013
• Como Zoo & Conservatory reaches milestone in 10-year expansion
  The 100-year-old Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in St. Paul has opened a new $2.8 million wing, and visitors got their first look over the weekend. The completion of the wing leaves just one more phase in a project that has taken a decade to complete.April 22, 2013
• Step-parenting from the child's perspective
  When researchers from Brigham Young's School of Social Work realized that most research on stepfamilies focuses on adults rather than children, they set out to make up for that gap.The Daily Circuit, April 21, 2013
• Gardeners make plans with no certainty in forecast
  April is a planning month for gardeners throughout the middle of the country, and many are trying to figure out what to do amid rapidly shifting weather conditions.April 20, 2013
• Across America, a week of chaos, horror -- and hope
  Moment after nail-biting moment, the events shoved us through a week that felt like an unremitting series of tragedies: Deadly bombs. Poison letters. A town shattered by a colossal explosion. A violent manhunt that paralyzed a major city, emptying streets of people and filling them with heavily armed police and piercing sirens. But beneath the pain, horror was counteracted by hope.April 20, 2013
• Denver pot holiday bringing crowds, tight security
  As tens of thousands of people gather to celebrate and smoke marijuana in Denver, police will be out in full force. But it's not the pot smoking they're concerned about at the yearly event, billed as the nation's largest April 20 celebration.April 20, 2013
• USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies
  USA Today founder Al Neuharth died Friday in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.April 19, 2013
• Two Minn. teens among growing number of girls competing in science
  The trend of more girls participating in high level science competitions has been demonstrated over the past several years.April 19, 2013
• Once-lost Minn. Indian portraits on display
  Once-lost images have now gone on display at Bemidji State University, where they'll be part of the permanent collection at the American Indian Resource Center.April 18, 2013
• Interfaith service in memory of Boston bombing victims
  President Barack Obama will speak at an interfaith service in memory of the bombing victims at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston today.The Daily Circuit, April 17, 2013
• Drug czar speaks at National Press Club
  The director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowski, speaks live at the National Press Club about Obama administration drug policies, and is likely to address the legalization of marijuana.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 17, 2013
• Pat Summerall, sports announcer, dead at 82
  Pat Summerall, the NFL player-turned-broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 82.April 16, 2013
• Twin Cities Marathon organizers eye Boston
  The people who run Minnesota's largest marathon say they're watching events unfold in Boston with an eye on what it might mean for their race, scheduled for this fall.April 16, 2013

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