Word: minns
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What may seem to be the least valuable--the day-to-day memorabilia of an ordinary life--may be a hidden treasure. Retired banker Arden Peterson, 62, who is in the process of downsizing, let his son Mitch, an iSold It trading assistant in Lakeville, Minn., put a 1929 $10 bank note from his collection on eBay just for fun (but also because a very rare 1905 $10 bank note had sold on eBay a month earlier for $27,000). The fun turned serious when Peterson's bank note fetched $1,037. Going through a lifetime of boxes...
...master documentarian as well as a prime picturemaker, Scorsese uses interviews with dozens of important figures from the New York City folk, poetry and blues scene--Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsberg, Al Kooper--to recreate the impact when Bobby Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., hit town in January 1961 on a pilgrimage to visit the ailing Guthrie. Dylan went right to work, sponging up all manner of folk influences, spending days in the library reading U.S. history, ingesting every book of poetry he found in the apartments of friends who let him sleep over...
...education, according to a national survey by Hewitt Associates. ? Government employers offer the highest overall level of benefits, a Mercer HR Consulting study found, retailers and wholesalers offer the lowest. ? General Mills employees can buy gas and get auto servicing at company headquarters in Golden Valley, Minn...
...platform is an altar, the tinkly tune is praise music, and the practice is Christian yoga. Senarighi's class, called Yogadevotion and taught in the main chapel of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minn., is part of a fast-growing movement that seeks to retool the 5,000-year-old practice of yoga to fit Christ's teachings. From Phoenix, Ariz., to Pittsburgh, Pa., from Grand Rapids, Mich., to New York City, hundreds of Christian yoga classes are in session. A national association of Christian yoga teachers was started in July, and a slew of books and videos...
Robert Altman is getting ready to shoot the climactic production number of his new movie, tentatively titled The Last Broadcast. On the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., technicians and musicians jostle with actors decked out for such roles as a radio host, a country-music singer, a rope-twirling cowboy, a 1940s-era private eye and the Angel of Death. "O.K.," Altman booms, "let's see what we can do with this ... this mess. I'm just going to sit here and watch." Before the cameras roll, he adds, not entirely jokingly, "Everybody fend for themselves...