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Aerial dancing
Performers with Project Bandaloop danced on the exterior of the Lawson building in downtown St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. The San Francisco-based group, which performs on urban and natural environments around the world, provided entertainment during the Flint Hills 2011 International Children's Festival.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

This week, two Obama cabinet members visited the Twin Cities, north Minneapolis residents coped with temporary housing, and fallen soldiers were remembered at Fort Snelling on Memorial Day.

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Loon
A loon flicks water into the air on Little Sletten Lake outside of Ely, Minn. on Sunday, May 28, 2011. Wildlife experts had worried about the BP oil spill's effect on Minnesota's loons as they wintered in the Gulf of Mexico. But early signs show the birds fared well, experts say.
MPR Photo/Nathaniel Minor
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Aerial dancing
Performers with Project Bandaloop danced on the exterior of the Lawson building in downtown St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. The San Francisco-based group, which performs on urban and natural environments around the world, provided entertainment during the Flint Hills 2011 International Children's Festival.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
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Francis Drake Hotel
Maintenance worker Steve Preston takes a smoking break at the Francis Drake Hotel in Minneapolis, Minn. Friday, May 27, 2011. The hotel, which was built in 1926 and has 146 rooms, is being used to house some tornado victims whose homes were lost in the May 22 tornado that struck north Minneapolis.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson