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...miles (30 km) south of Mount Luo, workers take an open elevator car for a 21/2-minute plunge down a dark, icy shaft. At the bottom, amid swirling condensation and suffocating dankness, they enter a large hall labeled as face number 5,206. The night before, an engineer used 2-meter lengths of dynamite to blast 150 tons of rock from the roof. Now two men use an earthmover to load the rock so it can be hauled to the surface, where it is crushed and mixed in a bath of chemicals to leach out the precious metal...
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Most recently she was leading life as a grownup, working for an insurance company and making plans to study psychology in grad school. But many remember Vicki Van Meter as the brave sixth-grader beaming from the cockpit of her single-engine Cessna 172--the kid who in 1993 became the youngest girl to fly across the U.S. and, later, across the Atlantic to Scotland. Van Meter, who spent two years in Moldova in the Peace Corps, suffered from depression and died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound...
...best in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Arkansas’s Randal Tyson Track Center seems like a pretty high bar. But, for Becky Christensen, clearing high bars comes easy. The junior high jumper tied her career best jump at 1.83 meter to claim the fourth spot and earn All-American status. “This weekend really shows that the hardest part [about indoor NCAAs] is getting in,” Christensen said. “Indoors doesn’t take as many people as outdoors, so the competition...