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He was a model prisoner at the Twin Rivers Corrections Center, with two exceptions: first, he opted out of a program for sex offenders -- since he would not be in jail long enough to complete it. More alarming was the art he drew in his cell -- "pornographic pictures of children...
THE WORST IS SUPPOSED TO BE OVER THIS WEEKEND. THE FLOOD CREST ON THE MISsissippi, 46 ft. above normal (and 3 ft. above the highest ever recorded before), was scheduled to pass St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday. It should roll by Cairo, Illinois, about 180 miles to the south, by...
If . . . sunshine finally puts an end to the rains that have been lashing the upper Midwest and swelling the rivers for the past three months, in amounts often difficult to believe (an inch in only six minutes last week at Papillion, Nebraska). Otherwise the crest could be even higher than...
But . . . even with few or no additions, the Great Flood of '93 is already one of the all-time monsters. It might go down as the worst of all in the U.S. by many measures: height of flood crest, area inundated (close to 17,000 sq. mi., vs. 12,700...
Only . . . statistics, and even the view from rooftop level, give little idea of the sheer extent of inundation. That can really be glimpsed only from the air, as by the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard Dolphin helicopter that flew over the St. Louis area last week to survey the...