Word: coale
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KENTUCKY Gore's anticigarette and pro-environment stances hurt him in this tobacco and coal state. It led one Democratic Congressman to refuse to come to the convention in Los Angeles...
WEST VIRGINIA Despite a strong Democratic history, West Virginians are giving Bush an 8-point lead so far. The coal miners have not endorsed Gore, worried about his environmentalism...
Julie Bargmann sees beauty in land littered with mine refuse and scarred by acid-laced waters. At an abandoned coal mine in Vitondale, Pa., she is creating what she has dubbed a "regenerative park" to capture the horror and the beauty of its industrial legacy. "New parks aren't all that different from the tradition of [Frederick Law] Olmsted parks," says Bargmann, 42, referring to the architect of New York City's Central Park. "Olmsted was actually constructing places that were part of urban life. Our culture is now one of postindustry. Parks need to express that aspect...
...Stoller, a friend of a friend who he'd heard wrote music. Stoller, a Long Island, N.Y., native, had fallen in love with boogie-woogie piano at an interracial summer camp. Leiber had breathed it in from the black households in Baltimore to which he had delivered kerosene and coal from his mom's grocery store. They bonded over 12-bar blues and had almost immediate success writing for black artists. "These were called 'race records,'" Stoller recalls, "meaning they were played only on stations that catered to a black audience." It was the young songwriters' destiny to become...
...this sounds easy enough on paper, but in the real world it is not so simple. Beneficiaries of the current system--be they U.S. corporate-welfare recipients, redundant German coal miners or cutthroat Asian logging interests--will resist. Which is why progress is unlikely absent a broader agenda of change, including real democracy: assuring the human rights of environmental activists and neutralizing the power of Big Money through campaign-finance reform...