August 7, 2001 - MPR’s Annie Feidt looks at the sport of disc golf as 350 of the top disc golfer's in the world are gather in the Twin Cities for the world championship tournament. The sport looks a lot like traditional golf, but instead of using a club to hit a ball, players throw frisbees up the fairway and into a catching device.
August 6, 2001 - Robert Spaethling isn't the first person to translate Mozart's letters, but he went to great lengths to be the most precise. The German professor chose 275 letters and postscripts written by Mozart over a span of 22 years. Spaethling tells MPR's Tom Crann it was especially difficult to translate the poems Mozart wrote, like one he sent to his mother in January of 1778.
August 6, 2001 - An interview with Lucky Rosenbloom, son of Tiger Jack Rosenbloom, who passed away August 5th, 2001 of natural causes at the age of 94.
August 1, 2001 - Vikings players say they're in shock today over the death of teammate Korey Stringer. Stringer died early this morning of heat stroke, a day after collapsing at the team's training camp in Mankato on the hottest day of the year. The offensive lineman was 27 years old. Irv Cross is a former NFL player, coach and CBS football commentator who is now athletic director at Macalaster College. Cross says pro players are extremely competitive and often push themselves too hard to prove they deserve their position on the team.
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July 31, 2001 - Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Korey Stringer was hospitalized today for severe heat dehydration following the team's first full pads practice at their Mankato training camp. It's not yet known when he'll recover enough to return to practice. Yesterday, Stringer and defensive tackle Fred Robbins had to sit out the afternoon session because of heat exhaustion. Today's heat index neared 110 degrees. Doug Casa is an athletic trainer at the University of Conneticut. He says the heat can affect even the most well trained athletes:
July 30, 2001 - Contemplating the future may go no further than deciding what we'll eat for our next meal. But for a group of professionals meeting this week in Minneapolis, the future conjures up questions- and answers- to much bigger issues... like how current forces of change will affect business, culture, health, religion and technology. John Mahaffie is a futurist at Coates and Jarrat Incorporated, a Washington D-C based futurist consulting firm-- and a speaker this week's World Future Society convention. He says his main job as a futurist is distinguishing lasting trends from simple fads:
July 30, 2001 - MPR’s Annie Feidt interviews slam poet Thadra Sheridan. She is one of five local poets that are sharpening their words, and clearing their throats in perparation for this year's National Poetry Slam.
July 27, 2001 - The man indicted by an Anoka County grand jury for leaving his infant son to die in his mini-van is weighing his legal options today. Kevin Daley is charged with second-degree manslaughter. Daley told police he didn't realize he had left his son in the van when he walked into work at his Blaine office building earlier this month. He was released without bail and is scheduled to appear in court again on September 11th. The Reverand R.L Jackson is Daley's pastor at New Hope Baptist Church in St. Paul. He says Daley was suprised by the Grand Jury's indictment:
July 26, 2001 - One of the wild's most magnificent carnivores may also be one of the most democratic when it comes to breeding. A new study shows female lions DON'T establish a hierarchy in which dominant cats breed more than subservient ones. They also take a cooperative approach to raising their cubs. The study was led by Craig Packer, a University of Minnesota Researcher who has spent more than twenty years observing lions in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater and Seregetti National Park. He says female lions' approach to breeding is a stark contrast to other social animals and insects: