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Article: Playing it cool; Minnesotans always have had to cope with some summer heat. Air conditioning is just the most modern way.(NEWS)(Twin Cities Journal)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 7, 2001
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Byline: Chuck Haga; Staff Writer
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In a listing last year of the 20 greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century, the National Academy of Engineering ranked air conditioning 10th, after electrification (first), computers (eighth) and the telephone (ninth).
Time for a revote?
At 4 a.m. Monday - with the sun nowhere to be seen - Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reported 82 degrees. Blaine registered a heat index of 98 - at 4 a.m.
It boiled into another heat-advisory day, with the late-afternoon high of 99 degrees setting another record. Temperatures today will climb into the upper 90s again, with dew points pushing heat ...