Minneapolis Star Tribune

Routine physical exams aren`t what they used to be in much of the medical world. For most of the worried well, the head-to-toe annual physical is out. Instead of a...

City of lacemakers, canals, churches and neat brick mansions with stairstep gables, Bruges is a quiet medieval treasure, easily one of the most beautiful in Europe. It reminds an American...

She wore a miniskirt, a white ruffled shirt and a smile that a power company could tap into. She walked up to two men. She made eye contact and jolted...

She wore a miniskirt, a white ruffled shirt and a smile that a power company could tap into. She walked up to two men. She made eye contact and jolted...

Take it from a guy who loves to explore cities: Vancouver is one of the two or three best urban vacation spots on the continent. When I think of many...

When paramedics wheeled 18-year-old Randy Nesteby into the emergency room of Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis late on Halloween of 1985, his left leg was mangled. ''We may have...

Coolers. Refreshers. Floats and slushes. The beverages of summer. Their names alone make the warm weather bearable. All of these drinks could just as well be served in the winter-and...

When 65-year-old William Spoor returned as chairman and chief executive officer of troubled Pillsbury Co. in March, culture shock set in for those who had missed his first term as...

Some people talk about their ''fax'' machines with the fervor of parents describing the birth of their first child. ''It`s like magic,'' said Bill Igoe, a manufacturer`s representative. ''God`s greatest...

It`s spring, 1955, at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, and the Dodgers are playing the rival New York Giants. The Giants` Sal ''the Barber'' Maglie is on the mound, Jackie Robinson...