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FLOWER POWER North Dakota's Democratic Senators want $450,000 to revamp the International Peace Garden, a "symbol of friendship" between the U.S. and Canada...
...Levin and Reed believe that with the return of Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, their measure will start with a baseline of 53 Senators, assuming no one changes his or her mind, as Virginia Senator John Warner did earlier this week on Jim Webb's proposal to limit the length of troop deployments overseas...
...southeastern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin, where rains have been particularly fierce. Iowans are bracing as a lake near Des Moines is expected to rise nearly 40 feet in the coming days. Record rainfall has been reported in towns like Hokah, Minn. The governors of Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin have declared states of emergency for parts of their states. Yet, the Midwestern storm's impact remains uneven: Nearly one-quarter of Minnesota's counties, most in the north and central part of the state, have been designated federal agricultural disaster areas mainly because of drought conditions...
...debris just makes things worse. "It stirs things up so bad. The visibility's terrible," says Capt. John Grant, a member of the Dakota County (Minn.) Sheriff Department's dive team, one of several groups assisting in the effort. Indeed, officials are sending crews into the river cautiously. Said Stanek: "The divers will be taking extreme caution. We have to be slow and methodical during our search operations...
...actually getting made, than almost any other living person. Now, all at once, the year of Gaiman is finally upon us. Stardust opens Aug. 10, starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. Beowulf, written by Gaiman and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is coming in November. Next year Dakota Fanning will star in Coraline, based on Gaiman's children's book. Is he about to cross over from the weird world of cult fame to the equally weird but more lucrative world of actual, real-world, mainstream fame? "Oh, God," says Gaiman. "I hope...