August 30, 2001 - Blogs are created to tell about daily life. A PhD student at MIT has created a tool called Blogdex, a way to index web logs.
August 29, 2001 - A group of Minnesotans is in Durban, South Africa, just days before the U.N Conference on Racism begins later this week. They are there despite the Bush Administration's decision... at this point... NOT to send representatives to the conference because they say that language in the conference's agenda is anti-Israel. Joining us on the line from South Afric
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August 28, 2001 - State law requires that neighbors be told, when certain sex offenders are released back into a community. There is often worry amoung residents, who fear the convict will reoffend. Later today, at a national conference of probation and parole officers in St.Paul, there will be some research presented on whether treatment for sex offenders really works. One of the presenters is Robin Goldman, a psychologist and sex offender treatment program director at the state corrections facility at Lino Lakes. She says psychologists have made great progress in treatment approaches in recent years.
August 27, 2001 - On September 4th, MPR is sponsoring a debate with the six leading candidates for mayor of St. Paul. On September 5th we'll have a debate with the four leading candidates for mayor of Minneapolis. In each city, there are quite a few other candidates on the ballot. Over the next two weeks, we'll talk with those candidates. The people running in St. Paul can be heard on All Things Considered in the afternoon. On Morning Edition, you'll hear from the Minneapolis candidates for mayor. Today, we'll hear from John Hartwig, a real estate broker who lives near Lake Calhoun. Hartwig is 64 years old, and calls himself an independent. He talked with Minnesota Public Radio's Julie Siple. Hartwig says he is running for mayor because of something that happened to him outside a Minneapolis grocery store.
August 10, 2001 - A website doesn't take the original computer viruses seriously. The owner thinks that the people who created the hype for the viruses are the ones who create anti-virus software.
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