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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...