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...number of neighboring Navajo, blame their dry springs and receding wells on Peabody Energy, which pumps 1.3 billion gal. of pristine water a year--enough to supply a community of 4,000 households--out of an ancient sandstone aquifer that lies beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands. Peabody claws coal out of land leased from the tribes at a site known as Black Mesa and pulverizes it into powder. The company then mixes the coal with water and pumps it through a pipeline 273 miles west to the Mohave Generating Station, which produces electricity for 1.5 million homes in nearby...
...center. If Bush is taking the role of the outside player, the public spokesman, the emotional leader of the Administration and the nation, Cheney is the inside man, the operations guy. Think of a train: "The President," says an adviser, "is the engineer. Cheney is the guy shoveling the coal...
...asset base but generated just 3% to 4% of its $841 million profit. Over the next 20 to 25 years, K.U.C.'s Sunrise could bring Rio Tinto the current equivalent of several hundred million dollars. Last year Rio Tinto earned $1.5 billion on revenue of $10 billion. It mines coal, copper, gold and talc...
...want to travel to Cat Ba from Hanoi, travel agents in the capital can arrange a two- or three-day trip for $20-$40, which includes boat rides, a bus to and from the capital and hotels halfway along in Bai Chay or Hong Gai, its polluted coal-mining neighbor to the east. (Getting there is definitely not half the fun: neither Bai Chay, Hong Gai nor Haiphong, a dismal collection of flyblown karaoke bars that are the jumping-off point to Ha Long Bay for those arriving by train from Hanoi, are places to linger...
...Flight 93 stayed aloft a few seconds longer, it would have plowed into Shanksville-Stonycreek School and its 501 students, grades K through 12. Instead, at 10:06 a.m., the plane smashed into a reclaimed section of an old coal strip mine. The largest pieces of the plane still extant are barely bigger than a telephone book. "I just keep thinking--two miles," said elementary principal Rosemarie Tipton. "There but for the grace of God--two miles...