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...problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student of art and industrial design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie and the product of rural Pine Island, Minn., where he sang in the high school choir, played football and jammed with a grunge rock band called Apathy...
...never deviate from the parts their conductor assigns, then today's successful corporation is more like a jazz ensemble: from the CEO down, everyone needs to learn to improvise and play off one another. That's the lesson of Jazz Impact, a business-improvement seminar created by Minneapolis, Minn., bassist Michael Gold for clients that include General Mills and Starbucks. "In jazz improv there is a specific tune that we use as the common ground, yet someone can present a unique version of the tune," says Gold. "This type of thinking has to be able to happen for companies...
...King sits in a circle at the YMCA in Duluth, Minn., cutting out pictures of girls from teen magazines. At his side is his daughter Katie, 10. The two meet once a week with eight other pairs of fathers and daughters at a Dads and Daughters workshop, a program designed to help fathers and their daughters do something they don't do often enough: spend concentrated time together. This night, the dads and their daughters are talking about messages the media send to girls about how their bodies should look. The week before, a guest speaker talked about domestic violence...
...Nelsons are also prepared to spend an additional $600 or so each month to help their only child with living expenses and payments on a $15,000 student loan. "We'll happily underwrite this experience for her," says Annalise's father Jim, 67, a retired pastor in Minneapolis, Minn. "It's a good thing, though, that we live frugally and have the handy cash to be able to do this." Whether it's delaying retirement, putting off a major trip or holding on to the house so there's a spare room for Junior to come home to, parents...
...verge of a chicken-pox epidemic, but the longer the shortages persist, the greater the risk. "All you need is one case to get you into trouble," says Dr. James McCord of the Children's Hospitals and Clinics in St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minn. McCord and other pediatricians expect they'll be able to start catching up when more vaccine becomes available later this summer. But that means keeping track of lots of kids who have fallen behind in their immunization schedules. For many parents it also means taking yet another day off from work to make sure their children get their...