Word: minns
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...Peter brought his mother to Alterra Clare Bridge in Eagan, Minn. Designed for people with memory difficulties, the center promised to allow Dolores, then 78, to live independently while it provided the extra support she needed. Staff members trained in memory impairment would help her eat and bathe; a "life-enrichment coordinator" would keep her active. The facility was stunning: from the outside, it looked more like a resort than a hospital. Inside, residents could gather in the "town square," with its beauty salon and ice-cream parlor, or relax by the fire in the living room, or skim through...
...more industrial materials find their way into our homes, worker-drone felt, the gray stuff used in refrigerator engines and as gaskets, has moved in too. The Feltup chair, from Minneapolis, Minn., designers Blu-Dot, uses felt made from recycled sweaters and socks for its slinglike seat. Furniture-design team Burning Relic makes a table with a 1-in.-thick slab of felt. British designer Anne Kyyro uses felt on blinds and lampshades...
...from the bumpy rides of youth. Drivers need concentration and nerve as well as helmets, race gear and instructions. "These things drive and feel very much like a race car," says Tim Sernett, a former race-car driver and part owner of ProKart Indoors in Minneapolis, Minn. That thrill has captivated corporate America, say track operators, who expect the number of tracks nationwide, now about 30, to double in the next three to five years...
...Concordia Language Villages, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. Offers kids 7 to 18 immersion in the language and culture of one country, such as France, Norway or Korea. And if your overstressed kid wants to coast, try the culti-camp set in "Hometown U.S.A...
...human seeing-eye guides. I never doubted for a second that disabled people are capable of doing fun stuff like skiing and scuba diving, so I don't find it newsworthy that this guy can put one foot in front of the other at high altitudes. PAUL RAMSEY Virginia, Minn...