Word: coale
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...that morning, four black girls had been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil had on his mind that day was the money he and his brothers were going to make with the newspaper route they had just secured...
...macho movie actor whose steely glare might have relegated him to villain roles but instead helped make him the top action star of the 1970s; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 siblings in a Lithuanian immigrant family, Bronson followed his father to work in the coal mines of South Pennsylvania before serving as a tail gunner in World War II. Longing to escape the deprivations of his childhood, he went to Hollywood and landed supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. In Europe, Bronson made movies that fixed his screen...
...Like generations of Paris limonadiers before them, the Costes brothers made their way up from the Auvergne, a poor region some 700 km south of Paris. Since the 1830s, Auvergnats have dominated the café trade: they made their living hauling coal up apartment stairs while their wives served drinks to the clients. The drink-serving part stuck. Jean-Louis and Gilbert Costes grew up in the business; their mother Marie-Josèphe Costes turned the family farm at Saint-Amans-des-Cots into an inn, which filled up with returning Auvergnats every summer. They told tales...
Electricity starts at the power plant, produced by a spinning generator driven by various means: a hydroelectric dam, a large diesel engine, a gas turbine or a steam turbine. The steam is created by burning coal, oil or natural gas or by a nuclear reactor...
Proponents of the policy hope that it will boost energy independence, but not everyone thinks that's a good idea. Because so much of the American gross domestic product is involved in the coal, petroleum and nuclear industries, walking away from them would set off severe economic shock waves. "The grid is a $360 billion asset," says Clark Gellings, a vice president of the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute. "It's literally a national treasure." Gellings believes that decentralization will play some role in the energy industry of the future, but he thinks it will always be a minority player...