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• After attack, warnings on safety of exotic cats as pets
  For the last two years, Kendra Hirsch lived across the street from lions, tigers and a bear. Hirsch, 13, held some of the animals in her arms when they were cubs, and says she never considered them a threat during her frequent visits to the Little Falls home of their owner, Chuck Mock.June 30, 2005
• StoryCorps: Extraordinary stories from everyday people
  The StoryCorps project is in the Twin Cities. People from all walks of life are stopping by a mobile recording studio on Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis to tell their stories, which will eventually end up in the Library of Congress. People talk about all sorts of things, including how the pope affects local liquor laws. Minnesotan Amy Trojanowski told a story about being in the Peace Corps in Poland during the reign of Pope John Paul II.June 29, 2005
• Gauging trends
  They're the people who figure out what's hot, and why. Local trend-spotters talk about the methods behind the work they do.June 27, 2005
• Ask the president of MPR
  Minnesota Public Radio has gone through some big changes recently. It launched a brand new radio station combining public broadcasting with popular music. Its Twin Cities classical music station KSJN recently became one of the first outfits in the country to broadcast in a new, digital, high definititon format. What do these changes and the recent controversies at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting mean for MPR?June 24, 2005
• For Miss Manners, there are no gray areas
  If you ask most people how a gentleman should cross his legs, whether a young man should refill his date's beer glass or the genteel way to get a stranger's attention, they'd likely be at a loss. But there's at least one person who could answer these and any other questions of etiquette without a moment's hesitation.June 23, 2005
• Historic scenic backdrops on display in Winona
  Theater enthusiasts head to Winona this weekend for the start of the Great River Shakespeare Festival. This year's five-week festival features 'Richard the Third' and 'Much Ado About Nothing.' But there's another special treat. Festival goers can also enjoy an amazing collection of old-fashioned theatrical backdrops.June 23, 2005
• Hot tamales by the thousands
  A young couple in Minneapolis makes a name for themselves as the largest local tamale supplier in the Twin Cities. Now they're ramping up production to get their tamales in grocery stores across the state.June 13, 2005
• Music box fans seek a new generation
  When you put a coin into a machine from the 1800s, you hear the same tune somebody else heard over a 100 years ago. Not a reproduction, but the exact music from the exact instrument. A group of local collectors hope a new film about mechanical music boxes will attract more enthusiasts into the fold.June 10, 2005
• Getting inside Nixon's head
  Award-winning journalist Richard Reeves says that Richard Nixon would have met his downfall even without the Watergate scandal. Speaking in 2001 at the Commonwealth Club of California, Reeves called former President Nixon "an accident waiting to happen," and that "if it had not been Watergate, it would have been something else."June 3, 2005
• Stringing the biggest harp in the world
  Minnesota is home to the world's largest hockey stick and the world's largest ball of twine. This week it will become the temporary home of the world's largest string instrument. The "Earth Harp" is being assembled in downtown St. Paul as part of the Flint Hills International Children's Festival.May 31, 2005
• Memorial Day at Fort Snelling National Cemetary
  Thousands of Minnesotans celebrated Memorial Day at Fort Snelling National Cemetary in the Twin Cities. Many came to honor military veterans, while others were there primarily to visit their loved ones' graves.May 30, 2005
• Minnesota vet adapts military training to humanitarian work
  A Minnesota veteran is adapting his military skills to help people in Darfur. That's the region of Sudan where the world's worst humanitarian disaster continues to unfold. Alex Erolin is the security manager for the Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee. ARC is supplying health and other services for people living in the sprawling and squalid refugee camps there.May 30, 2005
• Twin brothers in western Wisconsin make noise with their cannons
  Twin brothers in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, are known nationwide for their restorations of antique cannons.May 30, 2005
• Oakland Cemetery home to Minnesota's Civil War history
  For the past nine years, amateur historian Pat Hill has been giving guided tours of Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul, focusing on the approximately 1,500 Civil War veterans who are buried there. Those veterans include six Minnesota governors. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer went on a tour with Hill.May 29, 2005
• The voices of three Minnesota Republicans
  Voices of Minnesota takes a tour of the GOP's big tent with three prominent Minnesota Republicans from the party's left wing to its right: Sally Pillsbury, Wheelock Whitney and Bill Cooper.May 26, 2005

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