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Midwest floods' economic fallout uncertain
. -- Frayed optimism is the best that flood-weary Midwest residents can cling to after a harrowing month of battering rainstorms and swollen rivers that overtopped sodden levees in Iowa and then in Illinois and Missouri.
By Richard Fausset, P.J. Huffstutter and Stephen Braun
June 22, 2008
