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Out in the flood-ravaged Midwest, in St. Charles County, Missouri, the latest disaster victims are applying for assistance. Farmer Marie Oldenberg, 74, spent an afternoon in a local high school filling out government forms. She and her husband were hoping to earn money for retirement this year, but the...
Nor did Operation Rescue try to stop the Gulf War, which came with a loss of life that most abortion clinics would find hard to top. Where are the "pro-lifers" in the Somalia fiasco? It's possible that they are filling sandbags in Bangladesh in hopes of lessening the...
The show of paintings and sculpture by Jean Dubuffet, now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, is not exactly a retrospective. It covers only 20 years of the artist's working life, from 1943 to 1963. And the 100 or so works in it represent only about...
Piling up the bags has been good therapy for people eager to do something to combat the floods while keeping their minds off their losses. "All we can do is sandbag," said John Boerding, 50, who figured that more than half his 2,000-acre crop of soybeans, corn and...
The problem, ironically, is that the enormous system of levees built up over more than 200 years may be working too well. As the flood recedes and cities like Davenport begin the dismal task of cleaning up, sharp questions are being raised about the wisdom of the nation's approach...