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...been too long since you've heard the word golly! uttered without irony, head to Faribault, Minn., a hamlet one hour south of the Twin Cities, and ask for Rod LeVake. Maybe LeVake will meet you for some apple pie at the Happy Chef and talk a little football. Whatever you chat about, he will be solicitous of your opinion and take pains not to overwhelm you with his. Of his job teaching high school science, he says, "It's just kinda fun to teach kids, to kinda show them how complex living things are, I guess. That's what...
...Army Corps of Engineers began shackling the unruly current. The corps built levees along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching nearly 700 miles from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo. Now the upper Mississippi has become a chain of placid pools, each deep enough to allow barges calm passage before a lock lowers them toward New Orleans...
...hilltop overlooking the capital city. By early morning Washington time, officials at the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who were working their own sources, had what they believed was solid confirmation that Assad was dead. President Clinton got word as he sat on the dais at Carleton College in Minneapolis, Minn., preparing to deliver a commencement speech...
...want a glimpse of the boomer future that you'll never see in the ads for Brighton Gardens or MapleRidge (knowingly ironic boomer question: Where do they come up with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks...
Creative Memories, based in St. Cloud, Minn., trains consultants in scrapbooking techniques. It certified 49,000 last year, a fourfold increase over 1996. These consultants then teach at "crop parties" (named after the cropping, or trimming, of photos) where they peddle the products of Creative Memories. There is even a place called the Scrap & Spa in Union Pier, Mich., on the shore of Lake Michigan, that offers a weekend of massages, pedicures and scrapbooking for $215. It's booked solid through November...