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Even legally permissible levels of air pollution can lead to heart and lung disease. The culprits are tiny particles created in the burning of such carbon-based fuels as gasoline, oil, coal and wood...
Exploding methane gas killed at least 49 South African coal miners at a mine recently honored for its safety record...
...does not carry ideas the way a truck carries coal. We shouldn't try to retrofit the art of 300 years ago with our moral attitudes. The past is a very foreign place...
That will not be easy. America was built on cheap and seemingly unlimited supplies of carbon-based fuels -- wood, coal, oil and natural gas. With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. today produces nearly 25% of global carbon emissions. If nothing is done, the country will be pouring 100 million more tons into the atmosphere by the turn of the century...
Billboard slogans proclaimed, A MORE OPEN CHINA AWAITS THE 2000 OLYMPICS. Colored flags flanked thoroughfares, and taxis bore BEIJING 2000 stickers. To reduce pollution, some areas were forbidden to burn coal. All this and more went into Beijing's giant pitch to the International Olympic Committee for the Games in the year 2000. A decision is due in September...