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Some three million pounds of explosives are detonated each day in West Virginia for coal mining, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and the process shears up to 800 feet of elevation off each mountain peak, says Margaret Palmer, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science. The black scars run visibly up the spine of the central Appalachians. And the explosions don't sound lightly: "When they put these blasts off, it's horrendous," says Maria Gunnoe, 41, of the community advocacy group Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, who lives in Bob White, W. Va., 12 miles...
...class’s peppy blonde instructor, Cristina Hoff, sported a fanny pack and fuschia headset, and began by teaching the group how to execute one of the dance’s signature moves: the iconic hand flip. Balanced on the balls of their feet, with heads tilted down, students punched the air in unison and, after only a few minutes, had let loose. The “Sasha ferocity” was palpable, with one participant even donning the black long-sleeved leotard and black tights seen in the music video...
...sports,” said Chris City ’94, the Nordic team’s head coach and a college teammate of Cushman’s. “You don’t see that coming from someone who’s used to running 90 feet at a time...
...They really locked it down on defense at the end of the game,” junior co-captain Christine Matera said. “We had too many fouls…We need to move our feet better and not reach as much, because we let them back in the game scoring when the clock was stopped...
Have you tried snowboarding? -Austin Meyer, Prairie Village, Kans. I have, and I was bad at it. I don't like the feeling of having my feet stuck together. My husband and I were watching [snowboarder] Shaun White, and we were saying that he's like Yoda in Star Wars, who's always hobbling around and then in the fight scene goes crazy. That's what Shaun does. He's really agile. It's not easy, what he does. I couldn't do it. (Read "Shaun White vs. Lindsey Vonn: Who's Better...