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Mike McCall knew at age 14 he wanted to work in the mines. Chalk it up to a fascination with those "big Tonka toys" used to haul away coal, he says. He wasn't afraid to be underground, either. One of his first engineering jobs was in Peabody's famous Mine No. 10, a massive seam running beneath Illinois. Today, old enough to have a teenage son of his own, he still mines coal, but for a different boss. He is spearheading the largest expansion of coal-fired electric plants in Texas history for energy giant TXU. "With 6 million...
...penguin feature, “Happy Feet.” Then again, I’ll take anything I can get to forget Al Gore’s oh-so-awkward stint at this summer’s MTV Video Music Awards. I’m afraid the terms “Al Gore” and “bringing sexy back” might just be enough to sabotage “An Inconvenient Truth’s” credibility.—Staff writer Erin A. May can be reached at emay@fas.harvard.edu...
...Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) 3.5 of 5 Stars By ERIC L. FRITZ CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Don’t get me wrong; I like NPR. During long commutes, there would be moments when the hip-hop and pop stations would be in commercial and the rock station busy fulfilling its hourly quota of Nickelback. In these times, National Public Radio gave me the latest news about all sorts of important things, like endangered species and Iran. It kept me occupied and even, secretly, made me feel mature and wealthy...
...identity, Dolène recalls that when she gave her voice to Disney's animated princess, "I was Snow White ... it's my voice, but it doesn't belong to me anymore." Of course, Huyghe's work is not to everyone's taste. France's Le Monde newspaper, rarely afraid to address complexity, conceded that his "Celebration Park" defied all definition. That's fine with Huyghe. "We all play the binary," he says, referring to the easy recourse of seeing things as black or white. "But we know that in life, such simplicity does not exist." Nor, fortunately, does...
...found her stage feet: she fainted onstage while performing in upstate New York in mid-September. But one of the advantages of coming from a famous family is that you always have plenty of material (like, for instance, your mom's headline-heavy divorce). And Alexa Ray isn't afraid to use it. Her tune Now It's Gone is about her stepfather's affair...