A photo collage of falcon chicks being banded in 2007 at the Becker Minnesota Sherco power plant about 20 miles NW of Elk River.

Lost Cause, sung by Beck in 2002, was voted as Number 19 of The 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs in the whole World by Spinner Staff in May 2007. The Breakdown: The post-modern trickster reaches back to the Romantic era for the most depressing song on his break-up album, Sea Change. . . The...