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Have doping scandals changed your view of professional sports?

Photo by Marcus McCurdy via Flickr Major League Baseball will seek to suspend about 20 players, reports ESPN. [The players are] connected to the Miami-area clinic at the heart of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, possibly within the next few weeks, “Outside the Lines” has learned. If the suspensions…
by Michael Olson

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Lawsuits challenge EPA over MN iron plant

Two lawsuits are seeking to overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to grant a water quality variance to the Mesabi Nugget iron processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, saying regulators violated the Clean Water Act and other federal laws when they approved it late last year.
by Dan Kraker

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Have a nice trip

Have a nice trip

The mind altering and expanding effects of mescaline, psilocybin, ayahuasca and other plant derived chemicals as, as U of M ethno pharmacologist Dennis McKenna describes them, can be profound.
by Dan Olson

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Should the UN take steps to cut Syria off from shipments of new weapons?

Should the UN take steps to cut Syria off from shipments of new weapons?

Charting Syria’s civil war view interactive map and timeline of the conflict in Syria Syria’s civil war has reached a point of stalemate after two years of fighting, according to the United Nations. A new report by the UN is calling for outside parties to stop sending weapons into the conflict. Britain and France have…
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Tuthill bucks DFL, runs again for Minneapolis City Council

Tuthill bucks DFL, runs again for Minneapolis City Council

The DFL Party may be a powerful force in Minneapolis politics, but it’s not powerful enough to force incumbent city council members to abandon their re-election efforts. Council Member Meg Tuthill announced today she’s restarting her campaign, which she suspended in April after the DFL endorsed her challenger, political newcomer Lisa Bender. Bender was one…
by Curtis Gilbert

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Cancer claims a mom, but spirit lives in toy library

Cancer claims a mom, but spirit lives in toy library

Missy's Toy Library opened in March, operating out of the Franklin Arts Center in Brainerd. The stock of toys was started from the collection of Melissa Gahler, a 32-year-old mom of two from rural Pierz, who died in June 2011.

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Should scientists attempt to clone a wooly mammoth?

Should scientists attempt to clone a wooly mammoth?

“Scientists in Siberia say they’ve extracted blood samples from the carcass of a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth, reviving speculation that a clone of the extinct animal might someday walk the earth, if scientists are able to find living cells. But researchers say the find, which also included well-preserved muscle tissue, must be studied further to know…
by Michael Olson

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