Word: coal
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...more places every day, support is building. The National Academy of Sciences called this month for the swift development of a new generation of nuclear plants to help fight the greenhouse effect. The new atomic plants already on the drawing board (see box) would replace power stations that burn coal and oil, fossil fuels that belch heat-trapping carbon dioxide -- the primary greenhouse gas -- into the atmosphere...
...sell or close down the 8,000 state-owned companies that did business in the eastern part of the country, government officials thought the job would take at most five years. But the disintegration of East Germany revealed that its industry was a rolling wreck, running on dirty brown coal and potholed roads...
...Congress passed the Clean Air Act over Darman's objections. But Darman and Sununu had seemed to have the upper hand, and the President's ear, on global warming. Bush campaigned on the promise to curb the increase of greenhouse gases, which are produced chiefly by the burning of coal and oil. But the emissions are the exhaust of an industrial economy that Bush is loath to regulate. His instinct was strengthened by the fact that computer models predicting the impact of global warming are imprecise, leaving scientists unsure just how bad the problem is likely to get. Sununu seized...
Rachel and John are typical of the families the clinic serves. John worked part-time cutting firewood or driving a coal truck. The couple subsisted on food stamps, supplemented by the generosity of neighbors who often invited them over for dinner. Though the clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched...
Yeltsin is already the country's most popular politician, and his prospects at the polls, if he gets there, are improving through support from the increasingly powerful independent trade unions. Since March 1 about 300,000 miners have walked off their jobs at 160 of the country's 600 coal mines. They support Yeltsin's demand for Russian control over Russia's natural resources and demand Gorbachev's resignation. "We don't believe this government could fulfill our demands for normal working conditions," says independent union leader Pavel Shushpanov, "even if it wanted...