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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Top line helps Gophers shake funk

by Aaron Kirscht
Published January 6, 1998

For the better part of the early season, nary a Gophers men's hockey player could find the net with a compass and a map. Goals were few and far between, and even though the team was playing fundamentally...

U researchers put value on biodiversity

by Emily Dalnodar
Published January 6, 1998

By studying organisms the naked eye can barely detect, two University researchers confirmed theories that diversity is important in biological communities. Inspired by questions at a 1993 conference in...

Teachers, coaches say Ventura’s style is still the same

by Aubrey Fisher
Published January 6, 1998

Fingering through the pages of the 1969 Roosevelt High School yearbook, school faculty admit time has done little to change the new governor. Though three decades have passed since Jesse Ventura, then...

Moi promises to fight corruption in last term

Published January 6, 1998

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- President Daniel arap Moi vowed Monday to use his fifth term to end the graft, injustice and mismanagement that have plagued his previous four governments and put Kenya in a steep...

Dear Dr. Date,We h…

Published January 6, 1998

Dear Dr. Date,We have a problem. The two of us have a close mutual friend who lives in another city. Three months ago he got a new girlfriend. Since then, each of us have met her once on separate occasions....

Extreme weather causes four cases

by Jake Kapsner
Published January 6, 1998

Bundle up, it's cold outside. That's the message from Boynton Health Service, where four University students were treated for frostbite Tuesday. Frostbite is a freezing of the skin, on the surface or underlying...

Chemical company works on settlement

by Andrew Tellijohn
Published January 6, 1998

Hawkins Chemical Inc. has reached a tentative agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by those who claimed they were harmed during a fire at their chemical plant. The fire, which sent smoke and...

BWCA debate involves dispute over state land

Published January 6, 1998

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- A plan for the U.S. Forest Service to buy the remaining state lands still inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area has become an emerging issue in the debate over the area's future. Contrary...

Seahawks bidding for Holmgren

Published January 6, 1998

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The Mike Holmgren whirlwind tour is headed for Seattle, Baltimore and Philadelphia as he searches for a team that will give him total control. The Seahawks appear to be the strongest...

Research team closes in on disease cure

by Heather Fors
Published January 6, 1998

University researchers hope that a new nasal treatment, proven effective on mice, will have the same results on humans in curing a disease where the immune system attacks normal agents in the body. Headed...

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