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...larger of the two studies - a broad review of data from about 3,000 interviews with women in Olmsted County, Minn. - is among the first to show that ovarian preservation and estrogen therapy protect brain function. Of the study participants, who were all matched for age, 813 women had one ovary removed and 676 women had both ovaries removed, while the 1,472 women in the control group had both ovaries intact. Half of the women had oophorectomies because of a benign condition, such as infection or cysts, and the other half had their ovaries removed prophylactically to prevent ovarian...
...slides have been reported in the hilly terrain of southeastern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin, where rains have been particularly fierce. Iowans are bracing as a lake near Des Moines is expected to rise nearly 40 feet in the coming days. Record rainfall has been reported in towns like Hokah, Minn. The governors of Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin have declared states of emergency for parts of their states. Yet, the Midwestern storm's impact remains uneven: Nearly one-quarter of Minnesota's counties, most in the north and central part of the state, have been designated federal agricultural...
Meanwhile, Dan Luna, a meteorologist and hydrologist in the National Weather Service's Chanhassen, Minn., office, says up to 7 inches of rain may fall in parts of the region this weekend. That puts some farmers in a tenuous position. First, Keith Sexton feared the summer drought would reduce his corn crops at his farm near Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the north-central part of the state. So far, the rains have been a blessing: He's expecting to yield about 165 bushels of corn per acre, and about 50 bushels of soybeans per acre - average to above-average...
...debris just makes things worse. "It stirs things up so bad. The visibility's terrible," says Capt. John Grant, a member of the Dakota County (Minn.) Sheriff Department's dive team, one of several groups assisting in the effort. Indeed, officials are sending crews into the river cautiously. Said Stanek: "The divers will be taking extreme caution. We have to be slow and methodical during our search operations...
Terry Sandquist, HUTCHINSON, MINN...