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...used as a levee in St. Charles County, Missouri, northwest of St. Louis. Its waters mingled with those swirling south from the Mississippi 20 miles sooner than usual, forcing several hundred people to join the 7,000 who had already evacuated. Then, Friday night, the Mississippi broke though a sand levee at West Quincy, Missouri, forcing closing of the Bayview Bridge about a quarter-mile away -- the last span that was open over a 200-mile stretch of the river where it flows between Missouri and Illinois. The bridge will be closed for weeks, whatever happens, an indication that worse...
While throwing sandbag on top of sandbag on top of sandbag to erect makeshift barriers against the water, some people nonetheless wondered what could be done with all that sand -- or, for that matter, the bags -- once the waters subside. The Army Corps of Engineers calculates that it has distributed 26.5 million bags through the flood area, and each has been filled with roughly 35 lbs. of sand; they can't just be left in piles all over the place...
Conclusion: if only someone had noticed Charles Keating Jr. and colleagues emerging from sand traps with suspicious ease, American taxpayers would not now be billions of dollars in the hole...
BEHAVIOR: The Sand-Trap Integrity Test...
...issue of gays in the military will move more to the background at both Harvard and in the nation. "Many lesbians and gays are eager to get to other issues...We can fight this, but it's not the only fight," Outcalt said. "We don't want to pour sand down a hole...