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...founded in 1882 by a group of Harvard students who felt that the prices offered by Harvard Square merchants were excessively high. Thus, these ambitious students decided to open a store to provide members--students, faculty or employees of the College--with cheaper books, notebooks, pens, furniture, wood and coal...
China has the third highest level of carbon dioxide emissions in the world, he said, adding that the U.S. ranks first. Current attempts to correct the problem include developing clean coal technology and protecting forests, which consume large quantities of carbon dioxide...
...claustrophobic minutes, Berri locks viewers inside Zola's 19th century coal mines, where death by cave-in seems only slightly worse than the 12-hour-a-day life sentences that are the miners' jobs. Aboveground too, everything seems a dark metaphor for exploitation. Sex, marriage, even motherhood are tainted by capitalist precepts: a woman's basic job is to keep the workers sated and breed more of them...
...union of the workers against the bosses? Dream on. The miners endure such harsh lives that when they start a strike, they must brutalize the workers who oppose it. The workers have lost the victim's halo; now their hands will be soiled by blood as well as coal dust...
Sustaining that kind of songwriting over such a long string of records must involve far more mental work than the finished products show; it reminds me of Superman's party trick of turning lumps of coal into diamonds. The Dentists' powers aren't dissimilar; they are using the normal musical fuels-four boys, no girls, two guitars, verse/ chorus/ verse/ chorus/ bridge/ verse/ chorus, two or three riffs per song, and one memorable line to provide the title--raw materials more common in the pop music "underground" than coal under the real ground. And their lyrical and emotional raw materials...