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Two things hung over the proceedings. One was the sad death of Aaliyah (the talented young hip-hop soul singer passed away in an airplane accident only recently). The other was the sad death of pop music (Britney Spears and 'N Sync, two flagrantly untalented teen acts, were slated to...
Little wonder then that illegal mines mottle the landscape, even if some counties now produce so much that the price of coal has plummeted. With most of the small mines operating at barely profitable levels, workers are rarely supplied with labor contracts or insurance. The only piece of paper regularly...
Those are precisely the most dangerous ones: small, unregistered and free to operate without safety equipment and supervision. In the wake of the Duck Pond accident, the government closed more than 130 mines in the area, leaving only three officially open. But Guizhou's earth has far more coal to...
The saga began in 1978, when Bayly, then 21 and a ballet student, met Yukawa, a London-based executive for Sumitomo Bank. They fell in love, though Yukawa, then 49, had two grown sons and a wife, who was confined to a hospital with brain damage after a car accident...
The scene was like a medieval coronation, or a take from a Cecil B. DeMille movie. As the red-clad multitude waved banners decorated with the heraldic device of a prancing horse, a tumult of braying horns hailed the king as he sallied forth. But instead of a bloodstained battlefield...