Word: coal
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...wilderness of Southern Utah is one of America's most spectacular national treasures. But is is also one of our most threatened. If Congress passes pending legislation, much of this land will be opened to development, stripped for coal and bulldozed for mining. This pristine wilderness will become a desert wasteland...
...true: misery loves country. But Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators. Since her early hits (Jealous Bone, I'm That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like her, Patty sings the truth and serves...
Whatever happens, the show has to close for good on Feb. 11 in order to go on view at the Mauritshuis in the Hague in March. Nothing in the budget blackmail epitomizes the Republicans' folly as well as Vermeer. He's the canary in our ideological coal mine. This, one realizes, is part of what Congress's cultural ignorami mean by renewing American civilization. It is done by humiliating cultural institutions and depriving Americans of what the institutions contain. Meanwhile, at the National Gallery, lines have been forming at 6 a.m. in below-freezing weather and stretching round the block...
Embattled Whitewater principals Jim Guy Tucker and James McDougal received a bit of coal in their stockings from Senator Alfonse D'Amato. The two are part of a crowd of sixteen who received subpoenas from the Whitewater committee chairman for documents concerning Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. Arkansas Governor Tucker, along with James and Susan McDougal, are already under federal indictment for their roles in the failure of the savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater controversy. "The committee is now moving into the Arkansas phase of its investigation," D'Amato wrote in issuing the subpoenas. "We will...
...wrong and the IPCC report is right, there might not be much anyone could do. Slashing emissions of greenhouse gases to stave off global warming would be straightforward enough, but that doesn't mean it would be easy. Among the strategies recommended in the new report: switching from coal and oil to natural gas, turning to nuclear and solar energy, slowing deforestation, altering land-use and traffic patterns, curbing automobile use, changing life-styles and employment patterns...