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PHOTOS: A Waypoint On A Walk Across America

Martin J. Bernstein | Posted 06.30.2012 | Travel
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Martin J. Bernstein

It took five weeks to walk from New York to Pittsburgh. After about 270 miles on the Appalachian Trail I headed west on Route 30 till I got to the old steel city to pick up a canoe and begin my river journey on the great Ohio.

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Missouri Levee Exploded By U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers

AP | By JIM SUHR and JIM SALTER | Posted 07.02.2011 | Chicago
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WYATT, Mo. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illin...

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Mayor Tells Residents To Leave Flood-Threatened Illinois Town

AP | By DAVID MERCER | Posted 07.01.2011 | Chicago
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said Sunday that most of the city's remaining res...

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'THE TOWN'S GONE'

AP | By ANDREW DeMILLO and NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 06.26.2011 | Green
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VILONIA, Ark. -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says rescuers have accounted for everyone who lives in the tornado-struck town of Vilonia and that the death...

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Missouri Levees Ready To Burst From Intense Rain

AP | By JIM SALTER | Posted 06.25.2011 | Green
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A levee protecting the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff held overnight but officials are keeping a wary eye as waters from...

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Mimi Hughes 981-Mile Swim In Ohio River Ends In Illinois

Louisville Courier-Journal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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CAIRO, Ill. -- A Tennessee woman has completed her 981-mile swim of the Ohio River, ending in Illinois about two months after she started in Pittsburg...

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Wall Street and Legalized Loan Sharks

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Don McNay

If there was ever a shining example of why you should Move Your Money from Wall Street, legalized loan sharking is a good one.

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Wall Street and Legalized Loan Sharks

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Don McNay

Gary Rivlan notes in his book, Broke USA, "the working poor have become big business." You wouldn't think that poor people would be a growth market, but businesses make big money off people who live paycheck to paycheck.

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