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First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
A fourth-grade classroom on a forbidding stretch of the South Side was in the middle of multiplication tables when a voice over the intercom ordered Nicholas Whitiker to the principal's office. Cory and Darnesha and Roy and Delron and the rest of the class fell silent and stared at Nicholas, sitting sober-faced in the back.
First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
RUNNING WILD; The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain
RUNNING WILD; The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain
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Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts
Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts
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First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
A fourth-grade classroom on a forbidding stretch of the South Side was in the middle of multiplication tables when a voice over the intercom ordered Nicholas Whitiker to the principal's office. Cory and Darnesha and Roy and Delron and the rest of the class fell silent and stared at Nicholas, sitting sober-faced in the back.
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RUNNING WILD; The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain
RUNNING WILD; The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain
NO one alive has seen the Father of Rivers yawn this high or this wide. No one imagined the Mississippi or its relatives would take such liberties, consuming so many hamlets whole, or that, if they did, technology would be nearly helpless to stop them.
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Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts
Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts
When the Missouri River barreled through town like white-water rapids this summer, and grain bins and City Hall and the Assembly of God church and houses and barns gave way and there were no telephones or electricity or running water, people in this tiny farm town thought they knew all about the power of nature.
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