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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

U, NIH officials resume settlement talks on lawsuit

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published March 3, 1998

Federal government and University officials resumed settlement talks last week over the long-standing National Institutes of Health lawsuit. The suit, filed in January 1997, stems from the University's...

City works to ensure safer fumigant use

by Joe Carlson
Published March 3, 1998

Buried beneath a full agenda of committee reports at a recent neighborhood meeting lies an item simply called the "pest control issue." But many of the 30 people attending the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood...

Payments to Fairview offset merger costs

by Melanie Evans
Published March 3, 1998

Rent is due. With the ending of February, another $1 million transfers from the University to boost Fairview Health System's bottom line. The monthly payment is the 14th of 32 the University agreed to...

Trampoline sales and injuries bounding skyward

Published March 3, 1998

CHICAGO (AP) -- Trampoline injuries to children are soaring and most of the accidents happen at home, according to a study issued Monday. A manufacturer said trampolines are safer than bicycles. Children...

Yeast infections threaten large percentage of children

by Melanie Evans
Published March 3, 1998

As an infectious disease specialist and a practicing pediatrician, Dr. Margaret Hostetter has seen the deadly yeast Candida Albicans attack, and sometimes kill, her young patients. "It was really the...

Saddam and the great Beanie Baby heist

Published March 3, 1998

(U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Well it's a-one, two, three, four, what are we (tentatively) fighting for? Good question. The situation, as reported by MTV News, the voice of our generation, is something...

Individuality promoted in class by professor

by Rob Kuznia
Published March 3, 1998

To alleviate the perils of student apathy, Varghese Mathai says it is important for students to mentally take themselves out of the structured setting of a classroom and into a larger, more powerful whole:...

U students support global perspectives of grade schoolers

by Margaret Bell
Published March 3, 1998

Sixth-grader Alicia Wichlacz is passionate about banning landmines. The St. Bernard's Grade School student from North St. Paul is part of the Public Achievement program through the Humphrey Institute...

Vote set for Wednesday on proposed state park featuring Navy cruiser

Published March 3, 1998

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- Veterans Jack Burklund and David Wheat are active on opposite sides in the referendum that is expected to decide Wednesday whether Duluth will get a state park with the USS Des Moines...

Caucus is six-letter word for democracy

Published March 3, 1998

You probably won't go to a party caucus tonight. Most Minnesotans won't. But caucus turnout is always low, and Minnesota's confused electoral system only reduces participation. The state has for years...

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