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Today's college kids can't seem to cut the cord with mom and dad. Great score on a test? Flip open the cell phone and give mom the good news. Roommate bugging you? Zip an e-mail to dad to get some solace. Going home next weekend? Alert the folks to stock up on laundry soap.

Recent studies in Minnesota and nationwide show that the so-called "millennial generation" is calling home at a rate that would boggle the mind of past generations.

Strolling through a busy college campus, one might assume all those students busily yakking on their cell phones are talking to boyfriends, girlfriends, buddies. Not so.

Marjorie Savage was walking across the University of Minnesota campus recently when she overheard a brief cell phone conversation. It could serve as a model for modern times:

"I heard a student say, 'OK, mom, test was fine, talk to you later.' That was the entire conversation," Savage said.

Savage, who heads up the U's parent program, practiced the ancient arts of......

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