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...disaster could be just a few miles away. The Mississippi River at nearby Cape Girardeau, Mo., is projected to reach 41.5 feet - nearly 10 feet above flood level - on Sunday...
...such force is the Mississippi River. Once, the Gulf of Mexico extended north to Cape Girardeau, Mo., but the river gradually deposited enough sediment into a receding sea to create tens of thousands of square miles of land stretching south to the present mouth of the river. Long after New Orleans was first settled, the entire region remained above sea level and safe from hurricanes. Engineers prevented river floods by building levees and kept shipping channels open by constructing jetties two miles out into the ocean so that the river dropped its sediment into deep water. Before the jetties were...
Oliver comes by his calling naturally. Born into a Republican family, he grew up in Rush Limbaugh's Mississippi River hometown of Cape Girardeau and became pals later in life with the conservative radio star. Oliver stretched out his time at the University of Missouri law school to work for, among others, Missouri Senator John Ashcroft, now Bush's Attorney General...
...president: E. R. Roberts, of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; J. C. Talbot, of Milton, Mass.; W. H. Trumbull, of Salem, Mass...
...trip also allowed us to hear, from a very local perspective, some of the great issues we face as a nation. We listened to blacks and whites talk about community policing in racially divided Cape Girardeau, Mo.; parents debate a charter school in Osceola, Ark.; Ron Stodghill's father talk about the possibility of building a boarding school in the poor St. Louis, Mo., district where he is a superintendent; and the warden of the prison in Angola, La., describe his mixed feelings about the death penalty and life without parole...