Health Insurer Suggests Ways To Save Gov't $500B- 1 hour agoA major health insurer says the government can save more than $500 billion in Medicare spending by sending patients to cheaper, more efficient doctors, reducing hospital visits by the elderly and cutt...
Web Site To Raise Money For Minn. Cancer Patient- 1 hour agoThe family of a 13-year-old cancer patient who fled Minnesota with his mother because they objected to chemotherapy are using the Web to raise money for expenses that could mount as he restarts the th...
'Israel & the Rules of War': An Exchange- 6 days agoBy Asa Kasher
We are grateful to Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer for their discussion of some aspects of military ethics about which we had written ['Israel: Civilians and Combatants,' NYR, May ...
The Crisis and How to Deal with It- 5 days agoBy George Soros
Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30. The parti...
Obama and the Middle East- 1 week agoBy Robert Malley
By virtually every measure--name, race, origins, and upbringing--Barack Hussein Obama was a revolutionary presidential candidate. In Mideast policy at least, there is little reason ...
Keats's Afterlife- 1 week agoBy Christopher Ricks
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
by Stanley Plumly
Rome, November 30, 1820. John Keats, who at the age of twenty-five has less than three months to live, is writi...
Lincoln's Black History- 5 days agoBy Garry Wills
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and coedited by Donald Yacovone
Abraham Lincoln was born into a racist family, in a raci...
New: Adjustable columns are here!- 5 days agoHot off the press! We are working hard to deliver more customization options and we have another one to share with you this week. ( Click here if you missed the update from last week.) I’m going to in...
New: Background voyeurs get see-through apps- 1 week agoIf you are one of the many My Yahoo! users who enjoy customizing your experience, you’ve most likely chosen a theme or selected one of your Flickr photos to display in your background. If you have not...
You asked. We answered.- 3 weeks agoLast month, we continued our themes upgrade by adding the ability to upload an image or select a Flickr photo to be used as a background image (see Your Photo as Page Theme ). We’re so pleased that yo...
Prepare for the unexpected, good and bad.- 3 weeks agoYou never know what will happen, but you can position yourself for a smarter, more healthy response. A fact a day can help condition your brain for life’s little surprises, and office humor is a great...
Getting organized is just the start.- one month agoInstead of organizing, consider optimizing. How about something that helps improve your life in ways you haven’t thought about? For example, you might know that you like science fiction films, but how...
Duluth Hall of Famer, nominee honored- 19 hours ago
On May 21, Mary Evans was inducted into the Duluth Hall of Fame. Sandi Ralph-Hendrickson, who was nominated for the award, will receive a speci...
Horton let go by Duluth radio station- 19 hours ago
UPDATE: Talk show host Carinda Horton was let go Friday from Midwest Communications after nine months on the air.
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Duluth angler catches giant trout on Lake Superior- 19 hours ago
A longtime Lake Superior troller has caught what is believed to be the largest "lean" lake trout taken at the Duluth end of Lake Superior.
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Founding of St. Petersburg: 27 May 1703 - This Day in History- 17 hours agoFounded this day in 1703 by Peter the Great , St. Petersburg has played a vital role in Russian history and is especially known as the scene of the 1917 revolutions and as a fiercely defended city dur...
Hubert Humphrey: Biography of the Day- 17 hours agoHubert Humphrey
"And here we, just as we ought to be, here we are, the people, here we are in a spirit of dedication, here we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of happines...
Sally Ride: Biography of the Day- 1 day agoSally Ride In June 1983 astronaut Sally Ride , born this day in 1951, became the first American woman to travel into outer space, 20 years after Valentina Tereshkova of Russia had made history as the ...