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Naseyowna and many of the 11,156 other residents of the reservation, along with a roughly equal number of neighboring Navajo, blame their dry springs and receding wells on Peabody Energy, which pumps 1.3 billion gal. of pristine water a year--enough to supply a community of 4,000 households--out of an ancient sandstone aquifer that lies beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands. Peabody claws coal out of land leased from the tribes at a site known as Black Mesa and pulverizes it into powder. The company then mixes the coal with water and pumps it through a pipeline...
...Hopi wells had fallen 100 ft. since mining began, and the flows from most of its springs had been reduced 50%. Peabody cites its own extensive studies and argues that the water it draws from the aquifer is comparable to dipping "half a beverage can out of a 55-gal. drum." But Palmer says that Peabody "does accept that the aquifer has religious significance...
Extra 650-gal. fuel tanks...
...human being, or at least part of a human being, and human beings bury their dead. So instead of using backhoes and bulldozers to clear the remnants of the World Trade Center, hundreds of men scoop out the remains with their hands. They put them in 5-gal. buckets and pass them hand to hand down a 200-ft. line before they are emptied in piles in front of an investigator, who sifts through them. The workers will do this for 10- and 12- and 18-hour shifts, kneeling and using their hands to dig, even though they stand next...
With so much skin compromised, the top priority for doctors is to keep a patient's body warm and hydrated. In the first 24 hours, the treatment is surprisingly simple: saline fluid--sometimes as much as 8 gal.--to keep up blood volume and stabilize blood pressure, and morphine for pain. Only after a patient is able to maintain normal blood pressure, says Yurt, can surgery begin--a painstaking process in which burned skin is scraped away and substitute sheets grafted in. And even then, only about 20% to 30% of the severely burned will survive...