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...matter how grim the prospect for mining jobs, many of Logan County's young men still believe there will be a mining career for them. The Ralph R. / Willis Vocational Training Center is one of the county's best hopes for teaching its young that there is more to the world than coal. But the most popular courses in the school are those on mining. One is taught by David Thompson, 33, who went into the mines at 18. "The only thing I could see was dollar signs," he recalls. For the next eight years...
There was more grim news last week about the ozone layer, which wards off the sun's deadliest radiation. A U.N. advisory panel reported that serious atmospheric ozone depletion has spread from the polar regions to temperate climes -- and is worse than anyone thought. In the past decade the amount of ozone over the continental U.S. has decreased between 4% and 8%. Scientists knew that man-made chlorofluorocarbons caused some ozone loss in the temperate zones during winter and early spring, but now there also seem to be "significant" decreases in summer when people expose the most skin...
BUSINESS: King Coal's Grim Legacy...
...been lost. The Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate in September slipped a notch, to 6.7% from 6.8% the previous month. While President Bush hailed the movement as "one more sign that the economy is strengthening," many economists and investors saw little to cheer. Among other grim signs, the labor statistics showed that the number of discouraged workers, those who have quit looking for jobs and are no longer counted among the unemployed, had risen by 100,000 in the third quarter, to 1.1 million. "The economy is going nowhere fast. There is some recovery, but still...
Things looked grim. Alpert's office was flooded with student complaints. The Crimson even ran a photo of a student displaying a live, captured rat. Director of Facilities Management Thomas E. Vautin and Director of Physical Operations Michael N. Lichten realized that the time had come for the University to get a Pied Piper...