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...these stories you may have read in yesterday?s New York Times: about Jeremy Feldbusch, a wounded veteran of the Iraq invasion. He came to Iraq from Blairsville, Pa. - coal mining country. A wrestler from age 5 to 18, he got a B.S. in biology from the University of Pittsburgh. Soon after arriving in Iraq he was injured. "We were told by his doctors that the piece of shrapnel had gone under his goggles," says Jeremy?s brother Shaun, "and basically played ping-pong in his head? and he had damage to both sides of his frontal lobe." One tangible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Feast of Documentaries | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...throughout his junior year at Pottsville Area High School in central Pennsylvania’s coal country, Steve Pilconis made all the right moves. The star wide receiver sent videotape of his games to football programs across the country. He waited patiently as programs returned interest. He watched as his older brother, Ryan, was recruited to play football at Harvard. But most of all, Pilconis let his junior season statistics speak for themselves: 27 catches, 704 yards, eight touchdowns...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tall Target to Follow Brother | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...today, China, which recently became the world's fourth largest economy, has great significance both as a supplier of manufactured goods and a consumer of natural resources. The demand from China for raw materials has already resulted in higher equilibrium prices for many commodities, from coal to copper to palm oil. And if all goes well in India, which has many economic similarities to China 20 years ago, its economy will clock real GDP growth of more than 7% a year for the next decade, driving further price gains for commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wealth on the Wing | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...exhibited both problems. Given the anti-American feelings throughout the world, it would be in the U.S.'s best interest not to be world policeman. Frank Chase Nishinomiya, Japan 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Soon to a World Near You | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...antiquated power grids, China and India are extremely energy inefficient. China uses three times as much energy as the U.S. to produce $1 of economic output. But that means there is a lot of room for improvement, and saving energy by cutting waste is less expensive than building new coal plants. It also reduces dependence on foreign energy and comes carbon and pollutant free. "Efficiency really is the sweet spot," says Dan Dudek, a chief economist at Environmental Defense. Beijing agrees: the government aims to reduce energy intensity--the amount of energy used relative to the size of the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: The Impact of Asia's Giants | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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