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1 Midwestern Floods. Every spring the Mississippi River overflows its banks, more or less gently. This year the floods were devastating -- not just because of heavy rains but also because levees have constricted the river. Without its historic escape valves, the river burst some levees and roared over levee-less...
Three weeks ago, two multi-story houses behind Leverett Towers were air-jacked off their original foundation, placed on wheels, rotated 180 degrees, attached to a truck, and pulled onto a new foundation—at their new address, roughly 50 feet away. While anything that stands in the path...
The numbers were by no means the best of his career. Twenty-three carries, 103 yards, two touchdowns. But Saturday’s record-setting performance was vintage Clifton Dawson, from the 92-yard kickoff return to paydirt to open the second half, to the 32-yard scamper that iced...
DIED. MICHAEL WARD, 80, British surgeon and mountain climber whose expertise in both areas made possible the historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in...
Greenspan, who took over at the Fed just two months before the 1987 stock market crash, will step down on Jan. 31. By then, many believe he'll have finished his nearly two-year campaign of boosting short-term interest rates from the historic lows reached after the Internet bubble...