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Lifestyle

Beer competition brewing at State Fairgrounds

Suds specialists are gathering at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds with an enviable mission: finding the best home-brewed beer, mead and cider.

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Singer Dar Williams and the Promised Land

Singer Dar Williams and the Promised Land

Dar Williams' witty lyrics and feminist folk rock sensibility have made her a star singer/songwriter of the folk festival circuit during her 15-year career.

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The challenge of forgiveness

The challenge of forgiveness

When both the Lockerbie bomber and disgraced quarterback Michael Vick were released back to society, some people were outraged. But one scientist suggests that we have evolved to forgive, alongside biblical traditions of redeeming sins.

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Crowds embark on culinary adventure at Garlic Festival

Crowds embark on culinary adventure at Garlic Festival

The first of this year's garlic crop was the center of attention this past weekend in Hutchinson when more than 2,000 people crowded the McLeod County Fairgrounds for the Minnesota Garlic Festival.
by Ambar Espinoza

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Images of the flag here and abroad

Images of the flag here and abroad

You could call the U.S. Stars and Stripes an artistic obsession for Lauri Lyons. The photographer asked people she met on the street to pose with the flag and then talk about what the national symbol meant to them. And then she took the project abroad, with some surprising results.

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Risk in a time of uncertainty

Risk in a time of uncertainty

Twenty years ago, spurred by a newfound love of flying, aviation writer Lane Wallace left a good job and a nice salary for a life of adventure. In her new book, she talks about the risks and rewards of what she calls the "hero's journey."

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Midmorning Weekend

Midmorning Weekend

Midmorning Weekend revisits some of the best recent conversations from the daily call-in program.

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The biology of love

The biology of love

Helen Fisher, an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at Rutgers University, discusses her research into why we fall in love with the people we do, and what happens to our brains when we are in love. Fisher spoke at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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