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Parke Kunkle, who teaches astronomy at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, talks with a reporter about the changing astrological signs in his office in Minneapolis, Minn., Friday. Kunkle told a newspaper interviewer that the Earth's wobbly orbit means it's no longer aligned to the stars in the same way as when the signs of the zodiac were first conceived. That means when astrologers say the sun is in Pisces, it's really in Aquarius, and so on, Kunkle said. AP Photo/Craig Lassig MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis a...
More than 12,000 nurses launched a one-day strike today at 14 Minnesota hospitals in a dispute over staffing levels and pension benefits. Nurses wearing red T-shirts and carrying signs began walking picket lines at 7 a.m. today at the hospitals, all in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. At Abbott Northwestern Hospital near downtown Minneapolis, one nurse serenaded several hundred others by playing "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes. Passing motorists honked horns. A key issue in the dispute was the nurses' demand for strict... Full story