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...flood, the Army Corps of Engineers began shackling the unruly current. The corps built levees along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching nearly 700 miles from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo. Now the upper Mississippi has become a chain of placid pools, each deep enough to allow barges calm passage before a lock lowers them toward New Orleans...
...Main Street." And right now, Cairo's Main Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail and the town blew wide open. At the turn of the century, Cairo had vied with Chicago and St. Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring in off the barges and trains that converged at this point, where the Ohio and the Mississippi conjoin. But the levees it erected to keep the floods out also hemmed Cairo in. Now the town wants to extract itself...
...great issues we face as a nation. We listened to blacks and whites talk about community policing in racially divided Cape Girardeau, Mo.; parents debate a charter school in Osceola, Ark.; Ron Stodghill's father talk about the possibility of building a boarding school in the poor St. Louis, Mo., district where he is a superintendent; and the warden of the prison in Angola, La., describe his mixed feelings about the death penalty and life without parole...
...person from Albany St. reported to CPD that a person's arms were hanging from under a toilet stall. Emergency response arrived and revived the person who had overdosed on heroin. Personnel was notified, and the victim was taken to Cambridge Community Hospital...
Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater (HRST) opened its 20th season last week with "Man of La Mancha," which will be showing in the Loeb Experimental Theater on Brattle St. through July...