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Mississippi River Tragedies Douglas R. Hofstadter this section of The NewAmerican engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so called natural disasters continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging