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...into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution?). Tristao reads that as "to give...
...Louis, Missouri, is braced for the worst as it awaits a possible record crest of 49 ft. for the Mississippi River this week. City workers continued to patch up the 52-ft. floodwall protecting the city, but with yet more thunderstorms in the forecast, they are unsure if the structure will hold. Meanwhile, after a five-day partisan battle, the House approved a nearly $3 billion relief package. Republicans insisted that any outlay for relief be matched by spending cuts. At week's end the Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously for a $4.7 billion relief bill...
...recede slowly along parts of the Mississippi River. Des Moines, Iowa, turned its tap water back on for the first time in almost two weeks. But later in the week heavy rain returned to much of the area, causing still more flooding. "We are going to have another crest coming down," said Larry Crump, Army Corps of Engineers spokesman at Kansas City, Missouri. So far, the flood has killed at least 40 people, submerged 16,000 sq. mi. of farmland and caused $10 billion in damage...
Just as the flood seemed to crest, more rain came...
With many consumers abandoning brand-name products for lower-cost private labels, Procter & Gamble, the maker of Tide, Crest and Pampers, announced that over the next four years it would close 30 plants, eliminate 13,000 jobs, and cut some prices as much...