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...town's primary well is situated only 2,000 ft. from the nearest proposed mining site. A similar uranium-mining effort in the 1980s failed to preserve the water's purity, says Mitchell Capitan, the soft-spoken leader of a grass-roots organization opposed to the mine. "We can't afford to risk our children and our future," says Capitan. Martin agrees, "It's a disruption to Mother Earth, and it's not the Indian...
Once that is done, workers must plant new grass, move the goal posts and draw new lines. In total, the adjustments will cost about $50,000, Veneziano said...
...Your feet hurt, and you'll be home mowing the grass on Saturday, and your hands will go numb on you," he says. All of which is relative; he's happy to have the job, the benefits, the $12 an hour. "After you've worked in a poultry plant," which he did briefly, "nothing's so bad you can't handle...
...from the batting order; pitchers usually make for quick outs.) That half an hour is a huge increase, yet it fails to measure the agony of those games in which the earth's rotation seems to stop, in which the stillness is broken only by the faint sounds of grass growing and paint drying. In April I attended a night game between the Yanks and the Mariners in which the first five innings took...
...modest, political comeback for Brown, now 60. In 1995, after three failed bids for the presidency, he sold his mansion in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights and moved across the bay to Oakland's gritty waterfront. There he started up We the People, a nonprofit community center for grass-roots activism, and hectored his old rival Bill Clinton and other politicians on a national radio call-in show. Last fall, to the horror of other would-be mayors, he announced his candidacy...