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Fruity flavors: Nicotine & tobacco in a smoke-free state
26 July 2010 7:55 PM | No CommentsI hadn’t realized how jarring it is to see people smoking indoors until I watched two DVDs this month. Barbra Streisand, as Katy in 1973’s “The Way We Were” smoked throughout the movie, including during her pregnancy. And from the land of television, Tim Robbins...
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Angels in Minnesota
26 July 2010 7:03 AM | No CommentsAngels are coming to Minnesota — at least that is the hope. The legislature is betting on the old Field of Dreams saying “If you build it, they will come” and hoping it will apply to angel investors and venture capital dollars over the next...
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Gathering ’round the Campfire
22 July 2010 12:29 PM | No CommentsLast Monday I became a parody of myself. I took to the woods with my ten-year-old son, accompanying six of his friends, and some of their parents to Scout Camp in Wisconsin. Our kids are Webelos, going into fifth grade. We joined around 100 other...
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Health care reform, negotiations & trust: Communities yearn for peace & healing
Posted on June 20, 2010 | 1 CommentFor our communities in this new economy, a nursing strike is both an anomaly and a history lesson. When was the last time any union walked out on contract negotiations and benefited by picketing? Airlines? Autoworkers? Air traffic controllers? I ask this question only because... -
The Impact of Dysfunctional Teams
Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments“…and no one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone,” excerpt from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. In order to accomplish something significant, you can’t do it alone. Often times this means you are...
