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Mississippi flooding reaches St. Louis
The Mississippi River continues to bring flooding woes to the Midwest. Water levels in St. Louis are now nine feet above flood markers, forcing local businesses to close and preventing barges from reaching the...
Mississippi River Cresting Higher than Predicted
Daily reports, reassurances, but locals aren't buying it. You can see from my photos from the foot of Audubon Park that the river is very close to the top. No sandbags in evidence. "Officials monitoring river... High River puts New Orleans on Alert
"by Sheila Grissett and Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune, Thursday March 20, 2008, 9:06 PM
Recent heavy rains in the Midwest, combined with the last melting winter snows, will swell the Mississippi River to an expected crest at 16.5 feet in New Orleans by April 9, high... MI6 admit keeping a dossier on Mohamed Al Fayed
"After their brief trip to Paris, Diana spent virtually every free moment with Dodi at his apartment in London’s Park Lane or together at Kensington Palace, which rankled the royals greatly. Prince Philip was...
created by newsalliance | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Mustangs patrol U.S.-Canadian border
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNothing like Low tech to take on High Tech in the war on drugs. In my experience small Border towns are always a big problem requiring high tech air support in...
created by Barry Artiste | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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1801 views | 17 recommendations | 4 comments
Supermarkets fined £116m for dairy price fixing
After agreeing to co-operate with the Office of Fair Trading some of the supermarkets have admitted collusion whilst Lactalis McLelland, Morrisons and Tesco deny the allegations."Supermarket giant J Sainsbury has... Did Mallory & Irvine make it to the summit of Everest?
"Did Mallory & Irvine make it to the summit of Everest?
I've posted quite a bit on this blog about the enduring mystery of Everest pioneers George Mallory & Andrew Irvine, and have been fortunate enough to take an active role in the story, going to Everest in 1999,... Rise of exotic degrees
"They have been derided as Mickey Mouse degrees, with little academic merit. But qualifications such as surf science and technology are riding the crest of the economic wave, according to Universities UK. Degrees in computer games technology, golf management, brewing and...The world's most dangerous road
"It seems perverse that one of the main roads out of one of the highest cities on Earth should actually climb as it leaves town. But climb it does - just short of a lung-sapping five kilometres (three miles) above sea level, where even the internal combustion engine is forced...Marketing to Millions: China's Changing Tastes
"In the 1840s, an English author famously wrote that if every person in China lengthened his shirttail by a foot, British cotton mills would work around the clock. The lure of China's massive untapped market has only increased over time. So how are today's multinationals...
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