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...Zhongzai, a bedraggled corps of 25 workers doesn't wait for the cover of night: even though the mine is illegal, no one has bothered to come check this remote corner of Bijie township. Blackened, sinewy men pull massive lumps of coal from a slimy tunnel. The miners disappear for up to five hours at a time into the cramped, disorienting dark, crouching low to heave their pickaxes into the crumbling blackness. To pass the time, some light cigarettes, risking a deadly explosion. The pay for a day's work is $1.20. If the miners are lucky, they can take...
...same thing over and over, and most will tire and look away. Now show them what they had been missing. Some objects roll or fall, just as any grownup would expect. But others, thanks to trapdoors or hidden compartments, defy the laws of physics. They pass through barriers, or disappear and reappear. Are the babies surprised? Do they look longer at the impossible events, as if trying to figure out what just happened...
...recent years, Thompson has been consumed not only by the dramatic climatological shifts that occurred in the distant past but also by those that are so clearly taking place now. Earlier this year, for instance, Thompson unveiled compelling evidence that ice across the tropics is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Kilimanjaro, he reported, sports 80% less ice cover today than it did in 1912; a third of that loss has happened within the past decade. The Quelccaya ice cap is also receding at an alarming clip and may disappear entirely...
...once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects his employers arranged both arrests so they could cut his fee, a common ruse. Choosing a boss is a delicate business, he says: "But sometimes we just take the front money and disappear, so it works both ways...
...winter of 1983, I was released from a Beijing detention center. The officer who walked me to the gate said: "If you cause any more trouble, we can make you disappear...