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• War's strange appeal
  New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges explores the peculiar lure of conflict and combat in his new book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.November 7, 2002
• Help wanted in Dennison
  Voters in Dennison, Minn., need a new mayor, but no one's running for that office on this year's ballot. It's possible a write-in candidate will win. But if no votes are cast the city council will have to appoint a mayor. That's a problem too, since only two people have volunteered for four open council seats.November 3, 2002
• Artist in Trouble
  A group of artists are taking a critical - and funny - look at the business of art and the strange characters involved.October 25, 2002
• Their world is on wheels
  There was a roller skating revolution 20 years ago. Roller Blades hit the scene, and roller skating became extreme. But there's a calmer kind of skating that's been around a lot longer. In Duluth and Superior, the old-timers with the Arrowhead Roller Skating Club go to the rink every Tuesday night. And they don't just skate; they dance on wheels. The youngsters in the club are in their 50's.October 18, 2002
• City bears
  The occasional bear wandering into town has always just been a part of life in Duluth. Now wildlife officals are worried the city has its own urban bear population. The bears live in wooded areas within the city, which can provide an ursine buffet of trash and bird seed. The DNR says its is considering a special urban bear hunt to thin the numbers before someone gets hurt.October 16, 2002
• Mental math marvels
  Good at math? Can you keep up with the fifth-graders in Brainerd? A teacher is amazing parents and turning kids on to math with daily speed-drills.October 16, 2002
• Twins bring out the fanaticism in fans
  Many fans, both inside and outside the Metrodome, are engaging in peculiar habits to ensure that the Twins will keep winning all the way through the World Series.October 9, 2002
• POW families revisit history in Minnesota
  During World War II about 400,000 prisoners of war were held on American soil. Approximately 10,000 German POWs lived and worked in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. This week some of the POWs and their families are visiting the camps to remember, learn and reconcile.October 2, 2002
• A Home For A Hero
  Richard Bong was America's Ace of Aces. Superior Wisconsin's new Bong Heritage Center pays homage to the Congressional Medal of Honor Winner; his contemporaries; and the airplane he flew to fame.September 24, 2002
• Steel plant memories
  At one time, Duluth's biggest employer was a steel mill. More than 5,000 workers hammered out steel posts and barbed wire to fence the west, and steel for tanks and planes to win two world wars. The mill closed 30 years ago. The grandson of a mill worker is trying to capture some of the plant's history, before everyone who worked there is gone.September 23, 2002
• Boat nerds
  Some people watch birds. Some watch stars in the night sky. And some watch ships - right here in Minnesota. The Duluth Shipping News helps people follow the busy ship traffic at Minnesota's only ocean port.August 28, 2002
• Minnesota prankster makes waves with crop circle joke
  The movie "Signs," based on the crop circle phenomena, has become a box office hit of the summer. Since its premiere, a Minnesota prankster has received a lot of renewed attention. More than two decades ago, Waterville resident David Olson created what's believed to be the first crop circle in the United States.August 23, 2002
• Fighting polio with "gentle hands"
  Minnesota's polio epidemics in the 1940s and early '50s caused panic, because there was no known prevention or cure. A self-taught nurse from Australia, Elizabeth Kenny, brought a revolutionary polio treatment to the state. Minnesota became her base of operations, and Kenny became America's most admired woman.August 22, 2002
• Blue ribbon Bea
  Bea Foix has dominated the baking and canning exhibits at the Itasca County Fair since 1968. And she's showing few signs of slowing down.August 14, 2002
• Dogs that fly
  Most champion dock-jumping dogs are male black labs. That's why Ms. Ruger, the German wirehaired pointer from Duluth, is a darling of the dock dog circuit.August 9, 2002

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