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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2009

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

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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Tales from the flight deck

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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Predicting the flu

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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The cancer question

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

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

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Motorizing your living room furniture

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2009, 9:07 AM Oct 22, 2009
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Barnstorming on your couch.

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

Bob CollinsBob 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?

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It could’ve been tragic

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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Raising Hell House

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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Surveys and trivia

The balloon kid redux

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

The kid’s got a mouth.

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H1N1 threat overblown, report says

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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Surveys and trivia

Time to study

Bob CollinsBob 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?

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History in sand art

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 12:29 PM Oct 21, 2009
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A history of the Ukraine in 9 minutes.

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More questions than answers in terrorism plots

Bob CollinsBob 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.

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

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 7:40 AM Oct 21, 2009
6 Comments

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.

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Patients or prisoners?

Bob CollinsBob 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?

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