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• Family lands in court over son's cancer treatment
  The south central Minnesota family says they are following their religion by using alternative medicine, rather than chemotherapy, to treat their son's Hodgkin's lymphoma.May 8, 2009
• 'Disconnected' shows students' lives without computers
  A little over a year ago three Carleton College students did the unthinkable, and went without computers for a month. They also let their classmates videotape what happened. The resulting film called "Disconnected" will air on Twin Cities Public television this weekend.May 8, 2009
• Brett Favre in Vikings purple?
  Brett Favre is reportedly going to meet with Vikings coach Brad Childress at an undisclosed location later this week, to assess whether Favre wants to come out of retirement to play for Minnesota.May 6, 2009
• The moral strain of flu
  Ethics columnist Randy Cohen says the flu draws moral lines in the community. Will you stay home from work even if it means giving up precious sick days? Do you seek your own stash of Tamiflu to protect yourself and your family?Midmorning, May 5, 2009
• Minneapolis chef wins Best of Midwest honor
  Chef Tim McKee of La Belle Vie in Minneapolis won the "Best Chef: Midwest" award from the James Beard Foundation, considered the Oscars of the food world.May 5, 2009
• Author writes about life down on the farm
  If you dream about leaving the big city and returning to the land, listen first to Michael Perry. He's a writer who found farming -- even on a small scale -- a challenge. But it also gave him a chance to better understand his own rural childhood.Midmorning, May 4, 2009
• Minneapolis teacher named 'Teacher of the year'
  An English and language arts teacher from Minneapolis has been named Minnesota's teacher of the year for 2009.May 3, 2009
• Craigslist founder helps memorialize murder victim
  The founder of the popular online advertising site Craigslist on Sunday joined the effort to remember a 24-year-old Minnesota woman who died in 2007 after responding to a phony ad for a baby sitter.May 3, 2009
• Discovering China
  Simon Winchester's latest book is the story of an Englishman's adventures in China, and his determination to prove to the rest of the world that the Chinese were the first to create technological marvels.Midmorning, May 1, 2009
• McKnight Artist Bain Boehlke talks about his career
  The founder of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis is a Minnesota native who has been involved in theater productions since his childhood. Marianne Combs interviews Boehlke in MPR's "Voices of Minnesota" series.Midday, May 1, 2009
• Cherry to return to the Walker
  The Cherry returns to Minneapolis later this morning. For the last two months the red steel fruit from the iconic Spoonbridge with Cherry sculpture has been in a workshop in Hugo undergoing refurbishment.May 1, 2009
• Vandals chop down Two Harbors' 'honking tree'
  Vandals have felled the iconic "honking tree" just south of Two Harbors in northern Minnesota, upsetting the residents of the small northern Minnesota town accustomed to tooting their horns whenever they went by.April 30, 2009
• Christian Moerk proves a Dane can write an Irish tale
  Writer Christian Moerk has an ear for languages. Some might call him a linguistic shapeshifter. He grew up in Denmark, but worked in the US and in Ireland. When he decided to write a novel, he wanted to capture the distinctive language of Ireland's remote west coast.April 29, 2009
• Fathers, sons and money
  When it comes to money, parents and teens don't often see eye to eye. Wall Street Journal reporter Stephen Yoder and his son try work out some of those differences in a weekly column.Midmorning, April 29, 2009
• A new way to look at Alzheimers
  A renowned Alzheimer's researcher has a new way of framing the disorder not just as a single disease, but the result of a number of things that happen as the brain ages.Midmorning, April 29, 2009

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