Word: coaling
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...snarl. He puts maggoty meat on his family's dinner table while gambling away his earnings, beats and rapes his estranged wife, and hurls his stepdaughter down a staircase. When a worker at his fish-cake factory begs for back pay, Kim responds by applying a hot coal to the man's cheek. After the business takes off, Kim invests his gains in a loan-sharking operation, opening up vast new reserves of people to exploit and brutalize. To Kim, power is to be abused, affection to be crushed...
...travels in China in the 13th century, Marco Polo was amazed at the widespread burning of coal. He referred to the fuel as "black stones," and reported that "they may be had in the greatest abundance, and at a cheap rate." Today, China is the world's largest coal producer, increasing output each year to feed its rapidly growing economy. But the cost in human lives is anything but low. Thousands of miners die in China's coal mines every year. The government put the number at 6,434 last year, but labor- and human-rights groups say the true...
...government announced plans to consolidate the industry into 13 large-scale production groups to allow closer mine oversight, particularly for the smaller, private pits that are the most dangerous. Whether that action ends up being too little, it certainly is too late. Last Wednesday an explosion at a coal mine in China's southwestern Guizhou province killed 16 people...
...College-wide vote that begins today, undergraduates will decide whether the College should start to dump coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel in favor of a clean source of energy: wind...
...You’re counterbalancing your own coal use with someone else’s use of wind,” explains Alexander L. Pasternack ’05, who helped organize the Harvard Students for Clean Energy group, which co-sponsored the referendum proposal together with...