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...encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual pursuits with community service. At 19, Wellstone married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Ison, the daughter of Kentucky coal miners, and, after getting his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, moved to Minnesota to teach at Carleton College. It was there, in 1974, that he had his first brush with politics; informed by the college administration that he would not be retained owing to his poor publishing record...
...Coal and oil are perishable sources, so we want more sustainable or renewable sources of energy that don’t have a negative environmental impact,” said SSC Co-Director Sarah H. Abel...
...boundaries of Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, intending to snuff out Holden's five-term House career. The state lost two seats after the 2000 census, and the G.O.P..-controlled legislature hoped to protect the party's own. The new 17th, a mix of farmland and job-starved coal-mining terrain plus the state capital, Harrisburg, contains 60% of Gekas' old district and only 40% of Holden...
...Appalachian habitat threatened by mining, and the painted bunting, whose brushland habitat has been gobbled up by sprawl and farming. The decrease in birds isn't good news for humankind, says the Audubon's chief ornithologist, Frank Gill, since birds are indeed the canaries in the global coal mine. "Birds are one of our best indicators of environmental and other problems that can affect humans as well," Gill says. The West Nile virus, he notes, turned up in birds before it reached humans. --By Rebecca Winters
...encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual pursuits with community service. At 19, Wellstone married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Ison, the daughter of Kentucky coal miners, and, after getting his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, moved to Minnesota to teach at Carleton College. It was there, in 1974, that he had his first brush with politics; informed by the college administration that he would not be retained owing to his poor publishing record...