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Archives for October 2009

Five at 8 – 9/23/09: Your first Internet moments

Bob Collins October 23, 2009, 6:55 AM Oct 23, 2009

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Happy birthday to the Internet, the man who puts other people’s words in his mouth, chickens most fowl, your money or your brother, and night lights in Minneapolis.

Tales from the flight deck

Bob Collins October 22, 2009, 2:19 PM Oct 22, 2009

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A Northwest Airlines flight crew was so busy fighting Wednesday night that they missed the Minneapolis St. Paul airport.

Predicting the flu

Bob Collins October 22, 2009, 1:37 PM Oct 22, 2009

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There appears to be no reliable historical context for what’s going on.

The cancer question

Bob Collins October 22, 2009, 11:07 AM Oct 22, 2009

Do cancer survival rates prove the need for health care reform?

Motorizing your living room furniture

Bob Collins October 22, 2009, 9:07 AM Oct 22, 2009

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Barnstorming on your couch.

Five at 8 – 10/22/09: The new spanking?

Bob Collins October 22, 2009, 7:31 AM Oct 22, 2009

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Shouting at your kids, teachers making house calls, are CEOs worth their pay, are we ready for a wave of dementia, and would you buy a mobile home from this man?

It could’ve been tragic

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 3:00 PM Oct 21, 2009

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There’s a reason federal safety officials are reacting with such alarm when an airliner lands on a taxiway.

Raising Hell House

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 2:44 PM Oct 21, 2009

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If it’s near Halloween, it’s time for Hell House stories.

Surveys and trivia

The balloon kid redux

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 1:55 PM Oct 21, 2009

The kid’s got a mouth.

H1N1 threat overblown, report says

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 1:31 PM Oct 21, 2009

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According to a CBS News investigation, most people who think they have H1N1 flu don’t.

Surveys and trivia

Time to study

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 1:15 PM Oct 21, 2009

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What do the students at Yale Law School know that the kids at Villanova don’t?

History in sand art

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 12:29 PM Oct 21, 2009

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A history of the Ukraine in 9 minutes.

More questions than answers in terrorism plots

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 9:39 AM Oct 21, 2009

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A Boston-area man is charged with conspiring to attack shopping malls.

Five at 8 – 10/21/09: The vaccination debate

Bob Collins October 21, 2009, 7:40 AM Oct 21, 2009

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When your choice affects others’ kids, how insurance really works, how far would you go to save your home, bad air in real time, and Dolly Parton.

Patients or prisoners?

Bob Collins October 20, 2009, 3:08 PM Oct 20, 2009

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If a sexual offender treatment facility in Moose Lake is more hospital than prison, why are people worked up about flat-screen TVs?