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...year-old Xu and her family huddled on the top floor of their house. Outside boats weaved between building tops; window frames floated in the water. For days they lived on corn stew cooked over a coal fire. "I got more and more scared," she says. "Qu county floods every year. But this is the biggest flood I have seen. It rose much higher than I expected...
...hardest-hit areas include a swath of central China along the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Hubei and Anhui provinces. The Three Gorges Dam on the Upper Yangtze began to release flood water Monday, and boat traffic in the dam's lock was stopped. "The Three Gorges Dam has opened 18 sluices and the water level in the reservoir will continue to rise," a worker told the state-run Xinhua news service. "The safety of the dam will be tested." To the north, the level of the Huai River has begun to drop, but not before causing widespread destruction...
...With nearly one in every seven citizens affected in some way by the floods, the government has prioritized flood relief and response operations. Late last month, President Hu Jintao visited flood victims in the southwestern city of Chongqing. "You have gone through a lot of hardships," Hu told them, according to state media. "The once-in-a-century rains and floods have destroyed your homes and washed away your belongings. I feel sad as you all, and we must have the determination and courage to get over the disaster...
...high end of the L.A. market hasn?t fallen off, that home prices in the county overall continue to rise and that job growth is "pretty good." Still, even he admits that the subprime crash has plunged the entire real estate sector into uncharted territory. "Will it create a flood of foreclosures that drags down values in the rest of the market? So far it hasn't, but at some point, it might...
...hands of one faction or another. Pentagon officials will try to bring back as much of the downtime gear as possible - dining halls, office buildings, vending machines, furniture, mobile latrines, computers, paper clips and acres of living quarters. William (Gus) Pagonis, the Army logistics chief who directed the flood of supplies to Saudi Arabia for the 1991 Gulf War and their orderly withdrawal from the region, cites one more often overlooked hurdle: U.S. agricultural inspectors insist that, before it re-enters the U.S., Army equipment be free of any microscopic disease that, as Pagonis puts it, "can wipe out flocks...