3 homes washed away in Wis.; Midwest rivers swell Floodwaters washed away three houses and threatened dams in Wisconsin Monday as military crews joined desperate sandbagging operations to stop Indiana streams flooding to record levels. The East Coast simmered through a heat wave with temperatures climbing toward the century mark. Kennedy to undergo surgery at Duke for brain tumor Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was set to undergo surgery Monday at Duke University Medical Center for his cancerous brain tumor and then faces chemotherapy and radiation treatment, his office said. US ponders: How deep is economic abyss? For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture -- a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.
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