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January 20, 2009 "I thank you and the world thanks you, for choosing love over hate, hope over fear, and diplomacy over warfare. Today we finally begin the work of caring for our sick, giving jobs to the jobless, cooling our fevered planet, lowering the ocean levels, making the blind see, the lame walk..." August 18, 2009 "As a nation we offer our sincere condolences to the people of South Korea and Japan. As you know, the North Korean leadership signed a legally binding document to curtail all future missle launches which specifically included those with live warheads. That is...

There's a story rippling through the hills and valleys of northern Dunn County about a bear, a man, a jug and a rope. It's the story of a man running down a bear to pull a plastic jug off its head. "I knew that bear was in trouble. I thought, 'I got to save that bear's life,' " dairy farmer Mark Hanson recently said at his 200-acre family farm nestled in a valley between Ridgeland and Sand Creek. Mr. Hanson, 42, was going home from a hayfield for lunch on a Saturday when he noticed his horses all looking in...