Word: coaling
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...telling that the graphic accompanying your article showed an electrical cord that was not plugged in to a socket. In the U.S., where I come from, that cord will likely draw its power from a plant burning coal. Who is kidding whom? There's still no free energy lunch. Christopher Hungerland, suffolk park, new south wales...
...though he undoubtedly meant what he said, Wen's mea culpa must carry less weight than it would have a few years ago - on previous occasions he has been obliged to ask the people's pardon for everything from the deaths of coal miners and polluted drinking water to train passengers stranded by the authorities' inadequate response to a severe snowstorm. Faced with an ever expanding crisis over poisoned milk products and a string of other recent accidents that left hundreds dead - all directly attributable to administrative negligence or corruption - ordinary Chinese might be excused for asking themselves whether...
...Chinese media reports - soon suppressed - said it may have been much higher. The incident was blamed on corruption and failed regulatory oversight and resulted in the resignations of the province's governor and his deputy (they resigned without being charged with a specific crime). Soon after, three accidents in coal mines killed another 79 people, and a disco fire - once again blamed on lax regulation - killed an estimated 43 revelers in the southern city of Shenzhen. But citizens' furor over poisonous infant formula and the seemingly blatant failure of regulation in the milk industry overshadowed all those tragedies. One reason...
...South Africa, our precious 15-year-old democracy is dominated by a single party that has chosen a leader with no governing track record, intent on quashing a state case against him for fraud. This same government, notes Perry's report, owns 24% of Sasol, a cutting-edge coal-to-liquid oil company started by the former "white supremacist" leaders and now used by the incumbents to "dilute white domination of the economy." Sasol's board boasts a black majority; all but one of its executives are black and a recent $3 billion share release was confined to "employees, black...
...terrible irony of Hurry Down Sunshine is that you can hear in Greenberg's beautiful figurative language the not-so-distant echo of Sally's manic speech. They're both full of surprise metaphorical connections ("her eyes turn to polished coal") and abrupt right-angle turns. His literary talent is not unrelated to her curse: the startling associative imagery that gives his writing its power is like a domesticated version of the madness that nearly carried away his daughter's life...