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The Minnesota Daily

Floods swamp key Chinese oil field, threaten major cities

Published August 21, 1998

HARBIN, China (AP) -- Rivers raging from weeks of rain engulfed parts of China's largest oil field Thursday and smothered farming villages outside a key industrial center. Tens of thousands of soldiers...

IT student moves

by Jeremy Taff
Published August 21, 1998

Like the majority of students who have been at the University for more than four years, 11th-year mechanical engineering student Ted Ciganik has learned how to pour a good drink. But unlike most students,...

DNA links E. coli at Georgia water park to Florida burger supplier

Published August 21, 1998

ATLANTA (AP) -- The same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened more than two dozen children who had visited a water park was found in beef recalled by a Florida supplier. "The genetic match tells us...

Carlson alumnus joins Foundation

Published August 21, 1998

Daniel B. Marcotte will become Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for the $550 million University of Minnesota Foundation on Sept. 1. Marcotte is a MBA graduate from the University's...

Camp encourages young women

by Stacy Jo
Published August 21, 1998

To the casual observer, they appeared to be an average group of adolescent girls, sharing lipstick and talking about boys. But they were gathered on campus to participate in an experience focusing on...

Prof explores

by David Hyland
Published August 21, 1998

University researcher Peter Hancock spends his days examining how a driver responds to road signs or a pilot handles a new cockpit. Hancock, a kinesiology professor and director of the Human Factors Research...

U.S. forces hit targets suspected in embassy bombings

Published August 21, 1998

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, U.S. forces launched cruise missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a chemical plant...

Veterinary college

Published August 21, 1998

Academic Health Center officials named Jeffrey Klausner interim dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine on Tuesday. He is the chairman of the college's small animal clinical sciences department. Klausner...

Former U business school dean dies

by Sarah McKenzie
Published August 21, 1998

Former University business school dean C. Arthur Williams died Sunday after a long illness. He was 74. Educating younger scholars was Williams' chief priority, said his oldest son, Robert. He also noted...

26 killed in Sri Lanka clashes

Published August 21, 1998

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Recent clashes between government forces and Tamil guerrillas in the northeast have killed at least 20 guerrillas and five government soldiers, the defense ministry said Thursday. Government...

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