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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Languages face threat of extinction

Published February 17, 1998

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Deep in interior Alaska, there are only three households where Kuskokwim is still spoken. Just two people in their 70s keep the Klamath language alive in Oregon. In northern Australia,...

Six wins a must for .500 record

by Aaron Kirscht
Published February 17, 1998

It may go down as one of the more embarrassing losses in recent Gophers history, during a season in which there have been several. But after surrendering a three-goal first-period lead by allowing North...

Courtrooms have new alternative to expert witnesses

Published February 17, 1998

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday cautiously endorsed a movement among judges to appoint neutral experts to help them sort through contentious scientific evidence, but...

Canada’s Supreme Court QUestions Quebec’s right to secede

by Tim Nichols
Published February 17, 1998

OTTAWA (AP) -- Opening a historic, high-risk court case, the federal government argued Monday before the Supreme Court that neither Canadian nor international law gives Quebec the right to secede unilaterally. Quebec's...

Renewed fraternity restarts chapter at U

by Andrew Donohue
Published February 17, 1998

After a three and a half year hiatus, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity rejoined the University community Monday night. Beginning with the initiation of its first 24 members since 1994, the fraternity continued...

Construction didn’t bind Dinkytown used bookstores

by Jennifer Niemela
Published February 17, 1998

In Dinkytown, paper is stronger than concrete. Four small used bookstores in Dinkytown continue to thrive within a four-block area despite last year's road construction that forced some national franchises...

Safety in the 90s: things to remember

Published February 17, 1998

(U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Ah, Valentine's Day. It was probably grand; all flowers, candy and other lovey-dovey-type things. But on Saturday night, a woman probably drank a little too much, did drugs...

Grant prompts departmental cooperation

by Melanie Evans
Published February 17, 1998

The simple off-white metal box -- a DNA sequencer -- is easy to miss among the rows of flashing computers. But at $125,000, it's one of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital's most state-of-the-art tools....

State wants judge to allow release of tobacco documents

Published February 17, 1998

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The state asked a judge Monday to order the release of 39,000 tobacco industry documents, saying they would be some of the most important papers to come out during Minnesota's tobacco...

Net: All right, all…

Published February 17, 1998

Net: All right, all right. In our continuing efforts to please our incredibly diverse audience, we will heed your bitching and let up on Iraq for a few days -- although neither you nor the Iraqi people...

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