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CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Peter Schilling Jr. discusses why Johan Santana won't win the Cy Young this year at Balls.

Check out our gallery section for photos of last weekend's Art Car Parade.

Chris Ward finds the Transformers game for the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 stuck in first.

This week's DVD Reviews: Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition, The Exterminating Angels, Zodiac, and more.

THESE DAYS

The more exposure middle school students have to anti-smoking ads, the more likely they are to smoke, according to a new University of Georgia study.

Climatologists are building evidence that crops, particularly corn, are driving up dew points as they put water into the atmosphere through evaporation.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Goobermaster, Mom, and Rabbit post on mojito recipes, Simpsons avatars, and revenge of the cheerleader ninja movies at Goobertech.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

A middle school science teacher battles a hot sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong in The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

Hey, it's a bunch of babies eating lemons!

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I'm cool with it."

— 83-year-old game show host Bob Barker, on comedian and sitcom star Drew Carey replacing him as host of The Price is Right