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...then and since would suggest he wasn’t promised anything at all, that Marco is in fact the type who would have tried to pull the wool over Santa’s eyes. And we know that naughty little boys who try that stuff get nothing but coal in the end. Yet at some point, Minuto must have thought his suit could succeed. Who knows...
...Much to the relief of Egyptologists, today there's no need to keep grinding up those mummies. In 1856, William Henry Perkin, a bright, just-18-year-old chemistry student, was looking for a synthetic substitute for quinine, a cure for malaria. Perkin was at home, doing experiments infusing coal tar with hydrogen and oxygen?and had failed. Washing out his test tubes, he noticed a residue that resulted in a "strangely beautiful color"?mauve. Hidden inside a lump of coal tar, writes Finlay, was "the potential for thousands of colors." This is where most of our dyes come from...
...DIED. LORD HASLAM, 79, working class mining engineer who rose to the top of his profession as chairman of state-run monoliths British Coal and British Steel; in Virginia Water, England. Admired by miners for his self-deprecatory manner, Haslam was made a life peer...
...criminal intent. As commentators picked over the carcass of the case, Burrell was portrayed mostly as the victim of police and prosecutors, who jumped to the wrong conclusion on flimsy evidence, egged on by Diana's mother and sister - who supposedly resented that the son of a coal deliveryman had supplanted them in Diana's affections. Newspapers called Burrell "Diana's Rock." Well - that was then. Queen Blasts Barmy Butler, screamed the Sun last week. Outcast, said the Daily Mail. The Evening Standard informed its readers that burrell has betrayed us all says [Prince] William. Why? Just maybe because these...
...attacked Rockefeller for helping to block President Bush’s judicial nominees and supporting environmental measures that Wolfe argues would harm the state’s coal industry...