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Chigago Tribune, 24.04.13 01:43 UTC

Feds: Ex-water supervisor hid use of tainted well

Crestwood's former water supervisor may have signed public documents that concealed the use of a contaminated well, but she was merely a clerk who took orders from top village officials, one of her ...

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 17:44 UTC

Reeling elsewhere, labor poised for Minn. gains

Sitting side by side before state lawmakers, Minnesota Orchestra horn player Brian Jensen and third-generation sugar worker Becki Jacobson couldn't have come from much different worlds. But they had something in common: both had gone through lengthy labor lockouts, and both were asking the state to make unemployment benefits considerably more generous.

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 12:09 UTC

More rain expected for already swollen rivers

Communities along the Mississippi River and other Midwestern waterways eyed and in some cases fortified makeshift levees holding back floodwaters that meteorologists said could worsen or be prolonged by looming storms.

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CNN Top Stories, 23.04.13 09:00 UTC

Historic flooding hits Midwestern states

(CNN) -- Heavy rains have caused flooding in several Midwestern states, leaving some homeless and rivers at dangerous levels. "The more I see the water come up, the more I'll cry," said Starlynn ...

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Seattle Times, 22.04.13 22:05 UTC

Predicting the 1st round of NFL draft

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Seattle Times, 22.04.13 21:06 UTC

River views trump permanent flood protection

Her Missouri hamlet soon to celebrate its 200th birthday, Mayor Jo Anne Smiley embraces Clarksville's perilous place along the Mississippi River, never mind that that the waters again threaten to wipe it and its potpourri of specialty shops off the map.

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Los Angeles Daily News, 22.04.13 17:08 UTC

Teen sex culture: Line blurred between sex and rape

It's called slut-shaming, and it's how teens often respond when learning that a classmate has been raped. In the adult world, it's known as blaming the victim. Awash in a sexualized popular culture, ...

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Daily Mail, 22.04.13 15:57 UTC

Regrowing the redwoods: Giant tree CLONES are planted to combat blight of forest devastation

PUBLISHED: 15:25 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 15:49 GMT, 22 April 2013 Magnificent redwood trees from California have been cloned by a team of conservationists who aim to use the progeny to help ...

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Chigago Tribune, 22.04.13 15:34 UTC

More rain, chills to follow sunny spring day

Today is expected to be a gorgeous spring day throughout the Chicago area, if a little more nippy at the lakefront. And while showers tonight and Tuesday might push some rivers back into flooding, ...

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NPR, 22.04.13 13:00 UTC

So Far, So Good: But Midwest's Floods Aren't Over

The good news is that "the big river didn't get too big," The St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes this morning. "Sandbags held back the cresting Mississippi River from several towns north of St. Louis on ...

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Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the eighth most populous state in the United States. It has the longest freshwater shoreline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, p...

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