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...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...
...Despite its dirty, dangerous legacy, coal is what fuels China. While most other nations ended coal dependence years ago, China is still both the world's largest producer and consumer. Chairman Mao linked his country's future success to the cheap fuel, and from the hearth of the tiniest hut to the boiler rooms of big state-owned factories, coal is king. But decades of overuse have left sooty skies, polluted streams and eroded topsoil levels. Despite a pledge to cut down its contribution to global warming, China is the second-largest producer of greenhouse gases behind the U.S., with...
...Little wonder then that illegal mines mottle the landscape, even if some counties now produce so much that the price of coal has plummeted. With most of the small mines operating at barely profitable levels, workers are rarely supplied with labor contracts or insurance. The only piece of paper regularly produced by mine owners is a document waiving responsibility should any accident happen. Many of the miners are illiterate, so they simply press a black thumb to the disclaimer in lieu of a signature. Widow Zhang was promised compensation for her husband's death two months ago by a municipal...
...Bijie township, a woman complained to neighbors last month that mine owners didn't pay compensation for her husband's death. The next day, she disappeared. No one has heard from her since. A boy leading his mule past Heguantun village instinctively shakes his head when asked about coal mines in the area. Yet just meters away, in the center of this dusty hamlet, men haul bits of coal out of a narrow shaft. "This is not an illegal mine," insists its affable owner, Yan Lizhe. "It's too small...
...Those are precisely the most dangerous ones: small, unregistered and free to operate without safety equipment and supervision. In the wake of the Duck Pond accident, the government closed more than 130 mines in the area, leaving only three officially open. But Guizhou's earth has far more coal to give. Zhang's 15-year-old son, Li Enyong, will likely join the night brigade soon. With his father dead, the family no longer has enough money to send the boy to school. "What else is there for him to do?" asks his mother, her hand resting...