May 1, 1997 - A few years ago, health officials in Minneapolis were presented with a puzzling series of brief illnesses in the workplace that arose from a surprising source: a hot chocolate vending machine. It seems innocuous enough, but it was causing some problems. The latest issue of the Public Health Reports magazine reports the results. Pamela Nelms of the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support was one of the co-authors.
April 28, 1997 - Man does not live by bread alone, so as friends and neighbors reach out to flood victims with food and shelter, other folks are offering ... Grateful Dead tapes over the internet. I'll have an e-mail address for you in a few minutes. The group The Grateful Dead was known for letting fans make tapes of their shows, as long as they were never offered for sale, and these tapes can be as important to Deadheads as a book collection or a shelffull of Toby mugs might be to other people. And losing them to the floodwaters would be equally devastating. Steve Patterson of Corvallis, Oregon is a Deadhead with a lot of tapes -- he's been collecting for eleven years -- and he's been following the flood story on public radio. --------------------------------------------------------- | D-CART ITEM: 9291 | TIME: 2:31 | OUTCUE: "...FOR THE POSTAGE." ---------------------------------------------------------
April 28, 1997 - David Parker started with an interest in child labor in the United States, tracking kids in the many jobs they do here, from State Fair booths to fast food restaurants. But as photographer and physician, Parker found his focus shifting overseas, and he's compiled a photo essay documenting the far worse conditions for working kids in the Third World. Children reportedly make up 11-percent of the workforce in some Asian countries, 17-percent in Africa, and maybe 25-percent in Latin America. David Parker is a photographer and physician with the Minnesota Health Department. His photos of child labor have been displayed at the U.S.Capitol and Department of Labor, and will be published this summer in a book called "Stolen Dreams".
April 28, 1997 - INTRO ON ITEM Baseball analyst Kevin Hennessy follows the Twins for All THings Considered and The Baseball Workshop, which you can find on the world wide web. Sun 28-MAY 19:44:59 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
April 25, 1997 - The 15th Annual Minneapolis-Saint Paul International film festival is in its final week. The out-of-the-mainstream movies at several theatres in the Twin Cities wrap-up May 1st. We're down to what's called "The Best of the Fest", when organizers Al Milgrom and Bob Strong and audiences build the final schedule. Milgrom and Strong joined me in the studio with their top couple of films.
April 21, 1997 - MPR’s Dan Gunderson reports on the major impact Red River flooding has had on Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Red River will crest today in Grand Forks at 54 feet - more than double its normal depth. The flood has forced the evacuation of Grand Forks and the city across the river, East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Over the weekend, there was also a big fire in Grand Forks. Fire trucks couldn't get to it, so helicopters dumped buckets of floodwater on the fire.
April 18, 1997 - John Rabe reads from "Frederick Manfred"
April 18, 1997 - East Grand Forks update. The flooding situation is continuing to deteriorate in Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota. Joining John Rabe on the line is Melvin Hoverson Assistant Fire Chief for East Grand Forks.
April 18, 1997 - Next, the alpha and omega of the 15th Annual Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Film Festival, which runs through next Saturday. In a moment, we'll talk with a young filmmaker about his $2500 film called "The Road to Guatemala." But first, Peter Markle. He's not a household name, but his working habits might be a good example for starry-eyed filmmakers dying to be the next big thing. Peter Markle has made a decent living directing movies like "Hot Dog, The Movie" and TV series episodes like "Homocide", and this work lets him do his own projects, including "The Last Days of Frankie The Fly", starring Dennis Hopper and Keifer Sutherland, tonight's film festival headliner. Markle was a pioneer in Minnesota filmmaking when he made "The Personals" here years ago. He sees a parallel between 1997's "Frankie" and 1981's "The Personals".
April 18, 1997 - At the Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Film Festival tomorrow, a movie about an odd job. Chris Barry made a film about a Minnesota man named Dave Moot, who buys schoolbuses in the Midwest, then drives them to Guatemala to sell them.