Topic: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

Madonna's daughter smoking: Photo sparks parenting discussion (+video)

Madonna's daughter smoking? Admitting she's not "tough enough" on her 15-year-old Lourdes, the superstar talks bout parenting strategies as a single mother of four.

Mother's Day in Minnesota: bass fishing vs. brunch

Minnesota's moral dilemma: Opening day of fishing season falls on Mother's Day weekend. Will government save family unity and change the calendar?

Gratitude: a healthy recipe for Thanksgiving

Gratitude is an ethic that experts now see as equally secular and religious – not to mention a healthy recipe for Thanksgiving all year round.

Pilots to be exempt from airport scanners, intrusive pat-downs

Airline pilots will no longer have to go through body scanners or be subject to body pat-downs, as do ticketed passengers. TSA is also testing scanners designed to be less intrusive.

Tea party’s biggest concern isn’t Obama’s agenda

Beyond the tea party's antigovernment slogans lies white angst over lost political power.

Where is unemployment falling? Try these Frost Belt cities for hot jobs.

Minneapolis and Buffalo, N.Y., are the only two large metro areas that saw jobs climb or unemployment rates fall over the past year.

Where workers can walk – without leaving their workstations

'Treadmill desks,' company-sponsored or home-built, energize the desk-bound.

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Can competitions raise 'cool' factor of math, science?

Math bees and science smackdowns for teen brainiacs are on the rise, along with efforts to fuel interest in those fields.