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...high places. Former Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura—on campus as a teaching fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics—is also the former mayor of Peljto’s hometown of Brooklyn Park, Minn...
...Crimson didn’t stop there. They beat Providence and New Hampshire. They went to Duluth, Minn, home of the defending national champions, tied the Bulldogs 2-2 in a hard-fought game, decided that wasn’t good enough and went out the next night and embarrassed the champs 7-2 on their home...
Fixing computers is not normally considered the most glamorous of jobs. But try telling that to employees of two top-tier tech-support firms--Geek Squad, a house-call service based in Minneapolis, Minn., and DriveSavers, a Novato, Calif., company that fixes fried hard drives around the country. Geek Squad boasts that its clients include U2, Ice Cube, Ozzy Osbourne and the Rolling Stones. DriveSavers touts its techno-healing work for Sean Connery, Sting, Adam Sandler and the Stones again (someone should tell Keith Richards to stop trashing his laptops...
Sleep is critical to the healing process, yet sound sleep in a hospital is notoriously difficult to come by. To get to the source of the problem, a team of nurses conducted a study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The nurses placed noise dosimeters in patient rooms, and two volunteered to sleep over and note bothersome sounds in a thoracic-surgery unit packed with humming equipment and monitors. Peak dosimeter readings as high as 113 decibels--roughly equivalent to the din of a chain saw or jackhammer--came during the 7 a.m. staff changeover...
...seems that Ventura—who was born in Minneapolis and has constantly returned to the Land of 10,000 Lakes despite career stops in Vietnam as a Navy SEAL and in professional wrestling—lent a hand in directing a talented young man from Anoka, Minn., to spend four years of his life in Cambridge...