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• Performances take new leaps with digital technology
  This weekend fans of the Irish supergroup U2 can enjoy a new view of their favorite band. "U23D" is a three dimensional film that plunges a viewer into a huge stadium concert. It's just one new way that digital technology is being used to present performances.January 25, 2008
• Building mental muscles
  We all know the physical benefits of exercise, but new research is showing that that physical activity can also be good for our brains. The author of a new book says exercise is the most powerful tool we have to optimize brain function.Midmorning, January 25, 2008
• Letters from the trenches
  A war-zone journalism finds her dispatches to a prominent European magazine don't quite capture what she's feeling as she's reporting. So Carolin Emcke wrote letters to her friends to give them a sense of what conflict really costs.Midmorning, January 25, 2008
• Klondike Kates rock the winter carnival
  The Klondike Kates, St. Paul's winter mistresses of fun, heat up the annual Winter Carnival.January 25, 2008
• Olga Viso looks to develop the Walker's strengths
  There's been a changing of the guard at many of Minnesota's arts institutions. At the Walker Art Center, 41-year-old Olga Viso is assuming control at a pivotal time in the life of the museum.January 24, 2008
• Geraldine Brooks finds mystery in an ancient text
  When Geraldine Brooks covered the Bosnian crisis for the Wall Street Journal, she became fascinated by the disappearance of the Sarajevo Haggadah, a prized medieval text. The story of its recovery launched what was to become Brooks' new novel, "People of the Book."January 24, 2008
• Landfall named one of the best communities for young people
  A national group founded by former Sec. of State Colin Powell today will name the tiny suburb of Landfall as one of the top 100 communities for young people.January 24, 2008
• Family of baby burned in an incubator still waits to hold him
  The lawyer for the parents of a newborn who was burned at a hospital this week said the family was still waiting to hold their child.January 24, 2008
• Kaywin Feldman looks to the MIA's future
  The state's two internationally known art museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center, are launching new eras under new leadership.January 24, 2008
• Study: Multi-tasking behind the wheel is a bad idea
  A new study shows that people drive slower when they're using their cell phones, because they are not as attentive as other drivers. This is the latest evidence that multi-tasking behind the wheel can adversely affect how you drive.January 23, 2008
• Loans to fight poverty
  Nobel Peace prize winner and micro-lender Muhammad Yunus says the problem of poverty is one that can be solved. Yunus built a $6 billion business in large part by making small business loans, beginning with a $27 loan to Bangladeshi villagers.Midmorning, January 22, 2008
• Mpls program promises housing for long-term homeless
  Money from Minneapolis and other sources is being used to hire outreach workers who offer homeless people on the street a place to live.January 22, 2008
• Pawlenty announces human rights office for St. Cloud
  St. Cloud is getting a state human rights office.January 21, 2008
• People of Minnesota
  As part of MPR's coverage of Minnesota's sesquicentennial, Midday asks who was living in Minnesota 150 years ago? Who's come since, and where did they come from? What brought people to Minnesota? Everyone's got a story. Here's your chance to ask historian Annette Atkins and Minnesota State Demographer Tom Gillaspy about your ancestors.Midday, January 21, 2008
• Minn. climber reviews the new IMAX film 'The Alps'
  A new giant-screen film opens Friday at the Science Museum of Minnesota's Omnitheater in St. Paul. It's called "The Alps." It's about a mountain climber who tries to conquer the peak that killed his father. We asked Minnesota mountain climber Neal Mueller to preview the IMAX film.January 18, 2008

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