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A mysterious connection: autism and Minneapolis' Somali children
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi
By Elizabeth Gorman | Thursday, July 24, 2008
Autism doesn't discriminate against race or class, but in Minneapolis the mysterious developmental disorder appears to be targeting one of the city's newest communities: Somali children.
A whiff of relief or a reason to wince?
REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueForeclosed and for sale in Falls Church, Va.
By Susan Albright | Thursday, July 24, 2008
"Help is on the way" may have been the headline after House passage of a mammoth housing bill, but it didn't take much reading between the lines to see that a need for "confidence and stability," not unanimous government largesse, were the operable reasons for its bipartisan support and presidential acquiescence.
Ford's St. Paul Ranger once again escapes danger
By David Brauer
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Ford says its St. Paul plant will now stay open until 2011. Also, a 27-year-old murder case is resolved. Also, this time, it's TCF customers stopping payments.
Fifty years after attending Ojiketa Campfire Girls camp on Green Lake in Chisago City, former campers are trying to keep the land preserved as a regional park, the Minnesota Women's Press reports.
The List Universe has published an inspiring list of seven children who changed the world.
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BLOG OF THE DAY: How blue is Minnesota? asks Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics. Not blue enough to land all seven congressional seats, he concludes.
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Loans, logic and access
Though Harvard and a dozen or so other elite colleges are eliminating student loans, Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg says he is "not convinced that's the best way to increase access" to higher-priced colleges and universities.
FROM MACALESTER TODAY