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...issue could make Wilson the political canary in the '06 coal mine. Up for re-election--in a dead heat with New Mexico's attorney general--Wilson has received more than 500 letters about the controversial program. Last week she started getting ones thanking her for taking on Bush...
...Soulful Last Words TIME's verbatim column quoted the note left by Martin Toler Jr., one of the coal miners who died after being trapped by an explosion in a West Virginia mine [Jan. 16]. Toler wrote: "It wasn't bad/ just went to sleep." I was so moved when I read those words that I immediately went online to find the rest of the message Toler left to comfort his family and friends. He had also scrawled, "Tell all I love them, I'll see them on the other side." At the moment when death was taking everything from...
...green leaf. No single agenda would addresses as many core U.S. strategic issues as a revamped energy policy. Achieving energy independence could at once un-muddy U.S. foreign policy and curtail potentially irreversible damage to the environment through the use of emission-free renewable, nuclear, or clean coal energy sources. Moreover, investment in the area in the long run would stimulate economic growth by creating new jobs and putting the U.S. back on the cutting edge of energy technology. Unfortunately, it seems that President Bush has answered the praiseworthy, yet ultimately powerless, calls for an energy initiative on the scale...
Alongside agriculture, steel is arguably the most political of industries in Europe, and it has long been one of its most regulated. Back in the 1950s, the European Union itself was founded on the basis of an official scheme to manage steel and coal output and prices, and when the industry ran into trouble in the 1980s, governments across Europe poured in billions of dollars of state aid in an attempt to keep it alive. But times have changed. State aid is now banned, barring exceptional circumstances. And with the emergence of China, India, Brazil and Russia as fast-growing...
...professor from Wichita, Kan., wrote, “Mean Miranda, here’s a lump of coal. Mean Mitch, here’s one for you, too, but this one has a jagged edge I hope you snag your finger...