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The Weirdness That Is Gangnam Style
If you haven't heard of Gangnam Style by now, it's a silly Korean pop song that went spectacularly viral online and has since become tremendously popular. Its music video on YouTube has more than a b...
Posted on 1/8/13 at 3:27 PM
Oslo, Minn., site of Sandy Puttbrese benefit today
From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, a benefit at the Oslo (Minn.) Community Center will provide a spaghetti feed, bake sale and silent auction, all toward helping Oslo American legion Auxiliary member and G...
Posted on 11/18/12 at 11:01 AM
Summer salad easy to tote to Independence Day picnics.
If you've been to a Twins baseball game at Target Field on a Sunday afternoon, you may have satisfied your hunger pangs with a refreshing healthful salad from the Roots for the Home Team Garden Goodie...
Posted on 7/2/12 at 10:34 AM
Slavery? Still?
Pinch me, please, and remind me that we live in 2012. Remind me that slavery was abolished in most northern American states in 1783 after the American Revolution. Remind me that the Constitutions 13th...
Posted on 5/16/12 at 8:35 AM
The Bridgehunter’s Chronicles Rehabilitated!
Some changes in the online column to make it appear more attractive to the readers. In the past couple weeks, some of you have been seeing some road work done to the Bridgehunters Chronicles and it...
Posted on 5/4/12 at 7:28 AM
London School of Economics denounces BBC tactics
LONDON (AP) — One of Britain's leading academic institutions, the London School of Economics, is accusing the BBC of putting students at risk by using them as cover for a covert reporting trip to North Korea.By Gregory Katz, Associated Press , April 15, 2013
Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: a few buildings here and there, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The rest was blown up by the Germans in their onslaught against the Jews who took up arms against them.By Vanessa Gera, Associated Press , April 14, 2013
A look at the North Korea crisis
As the world waits and watches for an expected North Korean ballistic missile test, the U.S. and its allies are prepared to respond.By The Associated Press , April 14, 2013
Pope tells priests: practice what you preach
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis told priests on Sunday to practice what they preach, saying the church's credibility was on the line.By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press , April 14, 2013
Death toll from bird flu in China rises to 13
BEIJING (AP) — Two more people have died in China from a new strain of bird flu, raising the death toll from the virus to 13, state media reported Sunday.April 14, 2013
U.S. stresses limits of North Korea’s nuclear firepower
By By Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press , April 13, 2013
2 arrested in UK for hate crime against 'emo'
LONDON (AP) — British police say they have arrested two people over an assault on an "emo" teenage boy — the first to be recorded in the country as an alternative subculture hate crime.By Associated Press , April 12, 2013
Bosnian activist says UN meeting was biased
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Bosnian activist Munira Subasic lost 22 close family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, yet she was barred from speaking at a U.N. meeting where Serbia's ultranationalist president attacked the international body's war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia which has been prosecuting leaders of the genocide.By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press , April 11, 2013
Pentagon: NKorea could launch nuclear missile
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence report concludes that North Korea has advanced its nuclear knowhow to the point that it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, a jarring revelation in the midst of bellicose threats from the unpredictable communist regime.By Julie Pace and Robert Burns, Associated Press , April 11, 2013
Putin on Finland's criminal blacklist by 'mistake'
HELSINKI (AP) — Vladimir Putin, banned in Finland?By Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press , April 10, 2013
No panic in NKorea despite talk of missile test
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm.By Jean H. Lee, Associated Press , April 10, 2013
Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and incinerating cars and trees in the neighborhood.By Associated Press , April 08, 2013
Thatcher, even in death, divides world opinion
Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life — and in death.By Associated Press , April 08, 2013
Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes
TOKYO (AP) — It's easy to write off North Korean threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that could reach the Pacific island of Guam let alone the mainland U.S.By Eric Talmadge, Associated Press , April 08, 2013
Father: Slain diplomat died doing what she loved
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of an American diplomat who was among those killed in a terrorist attack in southern Afghanistan has taken solace in knowing she died doing what she loved.By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press , April 08, 2013
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