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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Nate Minor

nminor@mpr.org
Five by 8

Love and fish fries (5×9 – 3/1/2013)

Nate Minor March 1, 2013, 7:27 AM Mar 1, 2013
6

Bruce Kramer on expressing love, get yourself to a fish fry tonight, how one interprets duty to one’s country, St. Jose Canseco and, of course, the sequester.

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North Dakota’s secret to low teen pregnancy rates: oil

Nate Minor February 28, 2013, 9:47 AM Feb 28, 2013
4

A low teen pregnancy rate in North Dakota can be traced back to the state’s oil boom.

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Nature vs. nurture, continued: Throwing ‘like a girl’

Nate Minor February 21, 2013, 2:00 PM Feb 21, 2013
3

It’s more than just men’s physical strength that leads to their superior throwing ability, argues sociologist Lisa Wade.

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Surfing Lake Superior: How our photographer got those shots

Nate Minor February 13, 2013, 10:45 AM Feb 13, 2013
2

Photographer Derek Montgomery captured some great images of surfers on Lake Superior. Here’s how he got them.

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Weather

The key to Minnesota Nice: snow

Nate Minor February 12, 2013, 3:32 PM Feb 12, 2013
2

If you’re unlucky enough not to live in an area that got blasted with snow last weekend, you probably missed out on some good stories.

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Yes, Timbuktu is a real place. Here’s the proof

Nate Minor January 29, 2013, 1:15 PM Jan 29, 2013
5

Timbuktu exists in our minds as a mythical far-off place. It exists in reality too, on the edge of the Sahara, though it’s gone through hell recently.

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What the web used to be

Nate Minor December 14, 2012, 12:30 PM Dec 14, 2012
2

Digital master Anil Dash remembers the Web We Lost.

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Your daily aww: Christmas edition

Nate Minor December 14, 2012, 10:45 AM Dec 14, 2012
3

What would YOU do in this situation? Bob Collins is off for the rest of the day.

This or That

How not to deep fry a turkey

Nate Minor November 21, 2012, 9:32 AM Nov 21, 2012
1

Step one: a vat of hot oil. Step two: a big, cold bird. Step three: inexperienced enthusiasm. What could go wrong?

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The Boundary Waters in the fall

Nate Minor November 20, 2012, 10:53 AM Nov 20, 2012
1

Minneapolis-based videographer Alex Horner has convinced me that plans to go somewhere other than the Boundary Waters for summer vacation are not a good idea.

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When a community saves part of its past

Nate Minor November 19, 2012, 4:27 PM Nov 19, 2012
1

The Fargo Theatre is one of many trying to come up with money to modernize its equipment before industry standards change next year.

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What it’s like to be a waiter for a NYT food critic

Nate Minor November 15, 2012, 10:05 AM Nov 15, 2012
2

An ex-waiter responds to the New York Time-Guy Fieri spat.

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15 years after flood, ND church returns favor to Sandy-hit parish

Nate Minor November 14, 2012, 10:03 AM Nov 14, 2012

In sending more than $15,000 to a New Jersey parish hit by Hurricane Sandy, a North Dakota church has returned the favor — even if it took 15 years.

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Before Sandy hit the East Coast

Nate Minor October 31, 2012, 2:37 PM Oct 31, 2012

Haiti, the Caribbean nation Sandy hit hardest, is faced with yet another devastating disaster.

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‘It’ll be over soon,’ mom tells kid sick of campaign 2012

Nate Minor October 31, 2012, 10:02 AM Oct 31, 2012
2

A four-year-old has had enough of campaign 2012.

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