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...Yorkin was born and raised in the coal-mining town of Washington, Pa., where his father, a women's wear merchant, was part of a tiny and somewhat beleaguered Jewish community. Anomalously armed with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Tech, he went to New York in 1946 with the intention of becoming a theater director. A daytime job as a TV repair man supported his night classes in English literature at Columbia University. "My partner and I used to find excuses to fix sets in good restaurants so we could get free meals from the waiters," he says...
...panelists clashed over the roles that coal and natural gas should play in expanding supply. Richardson wants new plants to use natural gas because coal-fired generators spew carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. Kuhn notes, however, that coal prices are typically lower and more stable than natural-gas prices and argues that better technology promises to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions as well...
...expanding the E.U. into chaos. As Ahern, embarrassed and chastened, scrambled last week to recover, delegates at the E.U. summit in Gothenburg wondered whether the no vote should be ignored as a quirky bleat from a peripheral country, or be heeded, like the warble of a canary in a coal mine, as a crucial warning...
...been a wild ride. As chairman, Bourland, who has a business degree from Black Hills State University, took stock of his tribe's assets. "We had no timber to sell," he says. "We had no coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider--and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million...
...panelists clashed over the roles that coal and natural gas should play in expanding supply. Richardson wants new plants to use natural gas because coal-fired generators spew carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. Kuhn notes, however, that coal prices are typically lower and more stable than natural-gas prices and argues that better technology promises to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions as well...