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• A new way of working
  Two workplace experts say bosses should emphasize results rather than strict hours to revolutionize the workplace. Midmorning asks if time flexibility will still get the job done and further your career.Midmorning, May 30, 2008
• Students make music and instruments
  Thousands of people are expected over the next couple of days at the Flint Hills Children's Festival at the Ordway Center in St Paul. Students from Webster Magnet School in St Paul created one of the many performances at the event.May 30, 2008
• Toddler gets new kidney after a year of waiting
  Dominik Lawson, 2, finally has a new kidney after waiting more than a year for a donor. He is now recovering at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, and if all goes well he could return to his family's home in Taconite in a few weeks.May 29, 2008
• Theater veterans reconsider 'The Gin Game'
  This weekend, two stage veterans who have worked together on and off since the early 1960s will present their latest collaboration. Wendy Lehr and Bain Boehlke will perform "The Gin Game" at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.May 29, 2008
• Worried Burmese community meets with Sen. Klobuchar
  Some members of the Twin Cities Burmese community are still trying to find out the fate of their family members who live in the area of Myanmar that was hit by a cyclone three weeks ago.May 29, 2008
• University Avenue: A work in progress
  University Avenue, the route of the Central Corridor light rail line, has a colorful past that is still evolving. We wanted to know how the light rail line might impact University Avenue yet again, so we visited different points along the route to find the answer.May 28, 2008
• Why science needs art
  Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein are all known for their contributions to the arts, but writer Jonah Lehrer says that their work also showed profound scientific insight. And he argues that without art, science will never be able to answer our most essential questions.Midmorning, May 28, 2008
• Farm bill is mixed news for organic growers
  The 2008 farm bill designates more resources to organics than ever, but organic growers won't find relief from one of their thorniest problems: renting land.May 28, 2008
• Making the world better, one chestnut at a time
  The American Chestnut tree can save the world. That's the contention of a Minnesota farmer working to bring back the species.May 27, 2008
• "Red carded" house: Hugo resident Julie Togersen describes damage
  Torgersen's house has been "red carded," which means it has serious structural damage and she and her family will not be allowed to go back into it.May 27, 2008
• Cannon Falls man searches for MIA troops
  Eighty-year-old Bryan Moon returned from the jungles of Papua-New Guinea with another 21 dog tags.May 27, 2008
• An exodus from the sciences
  Though demand for workers in the science, engineering and technology professions is growing, women are leaving those jobs between the ages of 35 and 40. Midmorning gauges their experience in "hard hat" and "lab coat" culture.Midmorning, May 27, 2008
• Thousands gather to honor fallen soldiers
  Thousands of veterans, family members and civilians attended the Memorial Day celebration at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery near the Twin Cities airport.May 26, 2008
• Community restores abandoned church
  This Memorial Day, for the first time in nearly 50 years, a southern Minnesota community will celebrate Mass in a church abandoned half a century ago.May 26, 2008
• Duluth doctor remembers his service in a MASH
  A Duluth doctor recalls serving in an Army MASH unit in the Korean War. His experience was similar to the popular M*A*S*H television show of the 1970s.May 26, 2008

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