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...picturesque rivers and forests. Boise residents live there not by chance but by choice." Correspondent Michael Moritz trekked through Tucson, Santa Fe and Salt Lake City before winding up at Arco's Black Thunder mine in Wyoming. He watched in awe as "shovels the size of freighters dumped coal into trucks the size of houses." In Washington, D.C., Correspondent Gary Lee interviewed Congressmen and other powerbrokers active in the frontier states...
Many people still think of Pittsburgh that way, but the fact is, this old coal town from the "heartland" ain't what it used...
...reaction to a simple football match seems exaggerated or inappropriate, consider Pittsburgh for a moment. Primarily a blue-collar worker's town, most of the people who live here, from lawyers to contractors to mill workers to coal miners, are in some way involved in the steel industry. Consider also, that the recent slump in the steel market, aggravated in part by the recession and by competitive foreign steel markets such as Japan's and West Germany's, has forced many plants to close down, leaving many thousands of steel workers unemployed. The layoff of the steelworkers has serious repercussions...
Anyone who thinks the Steeler's loss will soon be forgotten just doesn't know Pittsburgh. Football and Pittsburgh have always had a special affinity to one another. For the steelworkers and coal miners who put in eight to twelve hour days of hard, physical labor they, more than anyone, can appreciate and identify with the physical life of a football player. Football offers a diversion to a grueling, unglamorous existence--the sequences in "Deerhunter" where steelworkers congregate after their shifts in local bars to drink Iron City beers and watch the Steeler game are no figments of the scriptwriter...
...robot revolution. It promises to revive decaying industries and give smaller firms all the benefits of mass production. Ultimately, it may also transform the way society itself is organized and the way it assesses its values. These steel-collar workers already paint cars, assemble refrigerators, drill aircraft wings, mine coal and, for that matter, wash windows; newer robots now on the drawing boards will soon be spraying crops with pesticides, digging up minerals deep under the oceans and repairing satellites in outer space. Not too far off, experts predict, is that landmark day when robots will begin designing and then...