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...Annette Smith sees it, Omya Industries is trying to blow up part of her town. To be sure, it's not a very big part--just a few dozen acres on a 400-acre tract in the Vermont mountains where the company wants to dig a marble mine. Still, Smith, head of the group Vermonters for a Clean Environment, wants to stop...
...markets for marble grow bigger. Reddy (who has some environmental expertise, having served on a desert-land-use panel to which he was appointed by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt) believes there are ways to make the mine in Danby less of an eyesore. Building grassy berms around the dig can conceal it, although only from people viewing it from lower ground. Omya also hopes that technological advances will enable it to dig a small vertical shaft and then draw the marble up through that...
...respect indigenous businesses, hiring local truckers, for example, rather than bringing in its own. Vermonters appreciated this, and when Omya acquired a new 400-acre tract on the face of Danby's Dutch Hill, its executives figured they had at least a fighting chance of being allowed to dig...
...Digging In for the Bigger Dig...
...story about a confused young man who did not have the parental guidance necessary to help him grow up. As someone born during the Great Depression, I never had the luxury of trying to "find myself." I knew exactly where I was--in deep trouble, and I had to dig my way out. I guess I had a better start than Lindh did. GEORGE GLAWE Medina, Ohio...