Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Northwest, mechanics negotiators reach tentative contract agreement
  Approval by union members would end a walkout that began in August 2005 but long ago ceased to have any visible impact on the airline.5:20 p.m.
• The reuse movement takes on our disposable culture
  Salvaging and reuse have become big businesses.5:23 p.m.
• Pakistan one year later
  Sunday marked one year since an earthquake in a remote region of Pakistan killed over 73,000 people. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake left another 3.5 million people homeless on the brink of a harsh Himalayan winter.5:50 p.m.
• Roe Family creates Minneappalachia on Monday nights
  "Old-time" country music was born in the mountains of Appalachia, not the prairies of the upper Midwest. But a Minneapolis band is putting its own stamp on a traditional American art form.5:53 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• North Korea's Neighbors Denounce Nuclear Test
  In the wake of North Korea's announcement that it had conducted an underground nuclear test, the international community swiftly condemned the action. The test proceeded despite warnings Sunday from Japan and China. It's not clear how big the device was, or whether the test was successful.
• United Nations Weighs North Korea Response
  President Bush swiftly condemned North Korea's reported nuclear weapons test, saying the United States would hold North Korea "fully accountable for the consequences of such action." Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council began drafting a resolution that could lead to further sanctions against North Korea.
• Impact of the North Korea Test on U.S. Policy
  For U.S. reaction to the reported nuclear test in North Korea, Robert Siegel talks with Ambassador Christopher Hill. Hill is the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and the head of the U.S. delegation at the six-party talks with North Korea.
• Experts Call for Changes to FDA Drug Approval
  A group of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, along with the The New England Journal of Medicine, are calling for changes to the FDA's drug-approval process. The advisers say the current process has problems from start to finish, and has made five recommendations.
• A Special Baseball Stadium Bird: The 'Ball Hawk'
  Most baseball games are played in ballparks full of fans cheering on one team or the other. But another kind of fan is loyal only to the fly ball: That's the ball hawk. One ball hawk, 36-year-old John Witt, has caught almost 2,800 Major League balls.
• Abortion Issue Heats Up in South Dakota
  In South Dakota's election this year, voters must decide whether to keep or scrap a sweeping ban on abortion passed by the legislature last February. If voters approve it, the law could serve as a test case to challenge the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. But the campaign is proving to be more competitive than expected.
• Kentucky Grapples with Confusion on Voter Lists
  For the first time this year, states are required to have centralized voter registration lists. In Kentucky, a state effort to eliminate duplicate registrations resulted in at least several hundred voters being mistakenly removed from the rolls. Confusion and lawsuits followed.
• Economist Edmund Phelps Receives Nobel
  Robert Siegel talks with Columbia University professor Edmund Phelps, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. Phelps' work in the 1960s helped to better explain the relationship between inflation and unemployment, and had a profound impact on decisions made by corporate and government leaders.
• Is the Nobel Sweep Over for Americans?
  So far, all of the Nobel prizes this year have gone to Americans. Nobel enthusiast and freelance writer Tatiana Divens of Vienna, Va., says we have probably reached the end of that sweep. The Nobel Committee is likely to pick someone outside of the United States and Europe for the final two prizes.
• National Politics Play Out in Ohio Senate Race
  Incumbent Republican Michael DeWine and Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown are in a high-profile, neck-and-neck race for the U.S. Senate. It's an election that will help determine which party holds the majority of the chamber in January.

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