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    Story of the Day 02/09/2010

    Federal officials have unveiled a multipronged attack to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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    Story of the day: 02/08/10

    Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker finds meaning in last night’s Super Bowl.

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    Story of the day: 02/05/10

    Jennifer Senior of New York magazine explains why kindergarten-admission tests are worthless.

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    Story of the Day 02/04/2010

    Researchers report "that five patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state showed brain activity indicating awareness, intent and, in at least one case, a wish to communicate." The Los Angeles Times has details.

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    Story of the Day 02/03/2010

    The prominent British medical journal Lancet has retracted a 1998 research paper that suggested vaccines could cause autism, the New York Times reports.

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    Story of the Day 02/02/2010

    Former UK official Clare Short has told the UK's inquiry on the Iraq war that Tony Blair's cabinet was misled into thinking the war was legal, the BBC reports.

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    Story of the Day 02/01/2010

    Toyota Motor Corp. said today its dealers should get parts to fix a sticky gas pedal problem by the end of this week, the Washington Post reports.

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    Story of the Day 01/29/2010

    Laura Miller remembers the life and work of J.D. Salinger at Salon.

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    Story of the Day 01/28/2010

    Toyota sacrificed quality for global growth and got burned, Japanese auto analysts tell Blaine Harden of the Washington Post. 

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    Story of the Day: 1/27/2010

    The Hill’s Kris Kitto does a Q&A with Alan Bjerga, new president of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and a Minnesota native.

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    Story of the Day: 1/26/2010

    Sam Kaplan, Minneapolis lawyer and DFL activist, talks to the American Jewish World about life as U.S. ambassador in Morocco.

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    Story of the Day 01/25/2010

    President Barack Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a package of initiatives intended to help middle-class families, the Washington Post reports.

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    Story of the day: 01/22/10

    Is the password dead? Not yet, says Tony Bradley of PCWorld.

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    Story of the Day 01/21/2010

    Humphrey Institute Dean and former USAID chief J. Brian Atwood explains the USAID's role in Haiti at Huffington Post.

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    Story of the Day 01/202010

    Just who is Scott Brown, whose election yesterday in Massachusetts has the nation's Democrats reeling? Lois Romano offers a profile in the Washington Post.

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    Story of the Day 01/19/2010

    The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. phone records between 2002 and 2006, sometimes by invoking terrorism emergencies that didn't exist, the Washington Post reports.

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    Story of the Day 01/18/2010

    George Clooney tells the BBC that the Golden Globes was a good place to recruit help for Friday's Hope for Haiti benefit, which will feature dozens of performers, including Bono, Alicia Keys and Sting.

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    Story of the Day 1/15/10

    What’s with the conservative movement’s attack on “Avatar”? Tom Shone at Slate examines the animosity.

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    Story of the day: 01/14/10

    Nixon meets Elvis: The Los Angeles Times reports what happened behind the scenes.

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    Story of the day: 01/13/10

    POLITICO reports on Steve Schmidt's war against Sarah Palin.

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    New Entry 1/12/2010 8:57 am

    Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam for two years, has died at age 100, the Guardian reports.

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    Story of the day: 01/11/10

    Michael Kinsley in the Atlantic says newspaper articles are too long.

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    Story of the day: 01/08/10

    The Los Angeles Times reports  Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs website is parting ways with the right.

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    Story of the Day 01/07/2010

    A Washington Post analysis finds that many of the interest groups trying to influence health-care reform legislation “operate with opaque financing, often receiving hidden support from insurers, drugmakers or unions.”

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    Story of the Day 01/06/2010

    The grim outlook for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections just got a little worse as four top Democrats — including veteran Sens. Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan — prepared to pull the plug on their campaigns, write Manu Raju and Josh Krashaar in the Washington Post.

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    Story of the day: 01/05/10

    Former Pioneer Press reporter Buzz Bissinger tells Tiger tales in his cover story about Woods in Vanity Fair.

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    Story of the Day 01/04/2010

    Allen Quist told Wabasha County Republicans that beating the “radical” liberals in Washington is a bigger battle than beating terrorism, writes Andy Birkey in The Minnesota Independent.

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    Story of the Day 12/23/2009

    Americans, it seems, still have a love affair with the West. Texas and Wyoming were the big winners in the latest Census Bureau's annual population estimates, writes Lee Christie at CNNMoney.com.

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    Story of the Day 12/22/2009

    "Washington’s influence industry is on track to shatter last year’s record $3.3 billion spent to lobby Congress and the rest of the federal government," reports Victoria McGrane at Politico.

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    Story of the Day 12/21/2009

    Five men suspected of stealing the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from the entrance to the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz were "ordinary criminals," reports Lizzy Davies in The Guardian. 

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    In the course of their day, MinnPost's editors come across all kinds of fascinating news items, quirky websites and provocative blog posts. Each day they highlight some to share with MinnPost readers as the Blog of the Day, Website of the Day and the Editors' Pick of a noteworthy story of the day.  Here their choices are archived for later viewing.