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• Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79
  Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.March 23, 2011
• Human cloning ban under review at Legislature
  A bill that would make human cloning a crime in Minnesota is back at the state Legislature. Proponents of stem cell research say the bill could hamper research on the roots of disease and potential therapies.Midmorning, March 23, 2011
• Ex-Viking Yary sues former teammate over investments
  Ex-Minnesota Vikings player Ron Yary is suing former teammate Stu Voigt over some bad investments.March 22, 2011
• Theft a prime source of illegally-obtained guns on Minneapolis streets
  In part one of MPR News' investigation of gun violence in Minneapolis, we look at where the guns come from. Most of the firearms used in Minneapolis gun crimes are obtained illegally. The people who use those guns steal them from homes or gun stores, or they buy them illegally.March 22, 2011
• American overconfidence
  America is a nation of confident people. But sometimes that confidence means we overestimate our abilities. Midmorning looks at the roots of American immodesty.Midmorning, March 21, 2011
• Missing high school student found in Wis. forest
  A 15-year-old Minnesota girl who went missing in the Ottawa National Forest has been found safe after an extensive search by more than 20 agencies from Wisconsin and Minnesota.March 21, 2011
• Minn. man hopes to teach kids about amateur radio
  A chance encounter while showing goats at a 1960s county fair in Iowa led Duane Wyatt to the discovery of amateur radio, a discovery he now hopes to pass on to a new generation.March 20, 2011
• MPR News photos of the week
  Flood preparation and the explosion of a natural gas line caught our attention this week. But we also got a look at bear research in northwest Minnesota and caught up with potential presidential candidates in New Hampshire.March 18, 2011
• Minn. man to spend month in glass apartment at MOA
  A Twin Cities man will spend the next 30 days on display in a glass apartment at the Mall of America.March 18, 2011
• A week after quake, Japan's leader vows to rebuild
  The Japanese government acknowledged it was slow to respond to the disasters that the prime minister called a "great test for the Japanese people."March 18, 2011
• Officials: Crisis may last weeks, no danger to US
  It could take weeks to bring the crippled Japanese nuclear complex under control, U.S. officials said Thursday, but they also declared there was no danger from leaking radiation to the western United States or its Pacific territories at this time.March 17, 2011
• Helicopters dump water to cool reactor in Japan
  Nuclear plant operators trying to avoid complete reactor meltdowns said Thursday that they were close to completing a new power line that might end Japan's crisis, but several ominous signs have also emerged: a surge in radiation levels, unexplained white smoke and spent fuel rods that U.S. officials said could be on the verge of spewing radioactive material.March 16, 2011
• Hope and loss in Japan's search for 8,000 missing
  Five days after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, the official death toll is more than 4,300. More than 8,000 people are still missing, and hundreds of national and international rescue teams are looking for them.March 16, 2011
• Mpls. aid groups send supplies, relief teams to Libya
  Two aid organizations with strong ties to Minnesota have sent supplies and relief teams to Libya over the past two weeks as violence and unrest continue nearly a month after protests against Moammar Gadhafi's regime began.March 16, 2011
• Video: Singers compete for title of 'Worst Irish Tenor'
  In honor of St. Patrick's Day, people sang their off-tune hearts out at Mancini's for the annual Worst Irish Tenor contest on Friday, March 11, 2011.March 16, 2011

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