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...lucky man. Being a coal miner in China is one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Officially, about 5,000 of his fellow workers died in mining accidents last year. Unofficially, nobody knows how many were killed. In the space of a single week late last year, gas explosions and accidents in four mines left nearly 100 miners dead. Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety Supervision, described the carnage as "unprecedented" and blamed the deaths on collusion between local officials and greedy mine owners. Indeed, throughout China, the coal magnates of Shanxi are notorious...
...dollars - and Iraq's future - are at stake. Virtually all the revenues Iraq has to rebuild its shattered economy will come from its mammoth energy deposits - some of the world's biggest untapped reserves - of about 115 billion barrels of oil and about 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In addition, Iraq's major creditors have made clear they expect a working oil industry, as a precondition for forgiving billions of dollars in Iraqi debt incurred largely by Saddam Hussein's wars against Iran and Kuwait and by his mega-splurging at home...
...after operating costs are met, would likely go to Baghdad. Regional governments - only Kurdistan has one right now - can sign their own contracts under the law, a dizzying change from decades when Saddam dictated the terms and stifled oil production in Kurdistan. A Baghdad-based Federal Council on Oil & Gas will be formed; it will have 60 days to appoint a team to arbitrate a contract, if it has strong concerns...
...have been some noble efforts," says Hershkowitz, citing as an example cosmetics-brand-driven recycling programs that encourage customers to return used packaging. "But it's not the disposal of the plastic container that causes the big environmental impact. It's the production of the bottle. The coal, the gas, the coloring agents, the heavy-metal stabilizers, the refining of the petroleum to make the plastic containers?it all creates a tremendous amount of toxic air emissions...
...clues. "I like to make it tough to find a restaurant. If you can't find it, you shouldn't be coming," says Flack, who reveals that the pair's investment was about $1.7 million. As to why anyone might want to build a kitchen and bring in a gas supply to an old brewery for less than a month, Flack says his core crowd expects it. "Young Londoners are used to everything around them changing quickly. They've grown up with the rave scene, and their mentality is to try new things." Waddington says, "It's all about...