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THUMBS UP Capt. Willibald Bianchi comes home Eighty years after his death, Congressional Medal of Honor winner Capt. Willibald Bianchi is coming home to New Ulm. Bianchi received the Medal of Honor for actions taken Feb. 3, 1942, in the Philippines. Before he could receive the medal, he was captured by the Japanese and was a POW for two years. On Jan. 9, 1945, Bianchi was transported on a prison ship called the Enoura Maru that was mistakenly sunk by the United States Army Air Force, resulting in the deaths of several hundred Allied POWs, including Bianchi. Following the war, his ...

Vaccines are important

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To the editor: I have watched with dismay the chaos at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the leadership of RFK jr. the science and research organizations CDC and FDA have lost many talented people. Critical decisions are being made by individuals with little experience and limited understanding of the subject matter. Why should you care? What can go wrong when a lawyer and a businessman give medical advice? When Donald Trump decided to promote unproven ties of acetaminophen to autism, he put pregnant women at risk. He put the unborn child at risk. With RFK jr and ...

How does food attract us?

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What is it about food that makes us want to eat it? What circuits are triggered when we look at the foods we like? How do the sensory properties of food influence our choices of what to eat? There are no simple answers for this complex function. What follows is just a piece of the mechanism. There are different models, each with its own perspective. The different models are due to the complexity of the food attraction mechanism. A traditional way to explain food attraction is called the Hedonic model. The suggestion here is that food is associated with pleasure. Anything that ...

Grazing in Kansas

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Eating is a central part of the human experience much in the same way that swimming is a central part of being a fish. My wife and I recently visited relatives in the Kansas City area, so we decided to swim in the waters of the region’s food scene. But first we had to take care of some important business by which I mean “go shopping.” Some mysterious law of physics forces our car to steer itself into the parking lot of any shopping center that we might happen to drive past. And since we’re in the parking lot, says my wife, we may as well go inside and see what the store has to ...

Commandments for every age to learn and practice

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To the editor: Ever since “The 10” were removed from public places like schools, courthouses and more, the snake of socialism has been squeezing democracy in the U.S. to its death which is where we presently are...democracy dying. The fundamental, moral ethics and basis of our Constitution written by our wise Founding Fathers was steeped in “The 10” to unify America in God of His pure truth which is the only truth in the universe. “The 10” are God’s blueprints for a safe, proper, productive and joyous life without Satan’s pure evil who is the father of lies to ...

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THUMBS UP New equipment at Washington Park celebrated On Thursday Mayor Kathleen Backer and elementary students at St. Anthony’s celebrated the new playground equipment at Washington Park during a ribbon cutting ceremony. The school’s 1st and third-grade students had a hand in selecting the new equipment. The Park and Recreation Department showed the students three design concepts and had them vote on their favorite. This means the equipment would be popular with the kids most likely to use it. The St. Anthony students were pleased with the new equipment, but it was popular with ...