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...environmentalist and a founder of sociobiology, the study of genetically determined behavior. He is also one of the clearest and most dedicated popularizers of science since T.H. Huxley, the 19th century British biologist whose books and lectures brought the new heresies of geology and evolution to Prime Ministers and coal miners alike...
Wilson's childhood was spent in "a small coal-mining town" in Pennsylvania, where his father worked as a miner to support a family of six children until his death...
...impresario and creator of the "Nashville sound," which helped push the genre into the mainstream; in Nashville, Tenn. In 1955 Bradley opened the first recording studio in Nashville, where he later crafted some of country music's most enduring tunes, including I Fall to Pieces with Patsy Cline and Coal Miner's Daughter with Loretta Lynn...
...Miracle on 34th Street. The 1947 version, or it's coal for you--from Natalie Wood to John Payne, this one thrives in that postwar black-and-white glow. And Edmund Gwenn (no offense Richard Attenborough, you were great in Great Escape) is Santa Claus...
...ambitious proposal: industrial nations should cut their emissions 15% below 1990 levels by the year 2010. Easy for them to say: Europe relies heavily on emission-free nuclear power. Besides, the collapse of the former East Germany's antiquated industries and a massive switchover in Great Britain from coal to natural gas during the 1990s have given Europe a big head start toward that goal...