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...Mike McCall knew at age 14 he wanted to work in the mines. Chalk it up to a fascination with those "big Tonka toys" used to haul away coal, he says. He wasn't afraid to be underground, either. One of his first engineering jobs was in Peabody's famous Mine No. 10, a massive seam running beneath Illinois. Today, old enough to have a teenage son of his own, he still mines coal, but for a different boss. He is spearheading the largest expansion of coal-fired electric plants in Texas history for energy giant TXU. "With 6 million...
...company propose conventional coal plants on the scale of TXU is pretty disturbing for shareholders," says Dan Bakal, director of Electric Power Programs at Ceres, a coalition of investors, environmentalists and public-interest groups. Miner-tough Mike McCall is having none of that argument. Asked if he's worried about the increasingly coal-fired environment his son, a high school freshman, will grow up in, he answers quickly, "No, because we are reducing emissions too. That's the beauty of what we're doing." The coal debate, it seems, is just getting fired...
...better for specialty remodelers, who can target deep-pocketed consumers like Mike Engel of Bend, Ore. When he decided to fix up his three-car garage, he characterized it as a "dumping ground and completely dysfunctional." So extreme was the clutter that of his three vehicles, he could fit only the Porsche inside. Engel contacted Mike Maxwell, owner of Garage Improvement, a Garage Envy dealer in Oregon, who completed the makeover this July for $15,500. Maxwell added stain-resistant rubber flooring, cabinetry, recessed lighting and a hot-and-cold water faucet so Engel could wash his cars...
...Threatt with his feet.”Harvard seemingly put the game out of reach in the third quarter, riding two Dawson touchdowns and the backend of 28 unanswered points to a 35-24 advantage. But a Lehigh field goal and a ten-yard Threatt touchdown pass to Mike Fitzgerald with 4:04 left made the contest a two-point game. The Mountain Hawk charge for a comeback ended when Threatt’s two-point conversion pass sailed over the head of his receiver and out of bounds.“Our kids played so hard today, down...
...shown some trickery of its own. The Mountain Hawks attempted a reverse option on their opening drive, but fumbled the pitch.“We thought we could get some big plays off the misdirection,” Coen said.Lehigh also got a 38-yard completion from wide receiver Mike Fitzgerald to Lee Thomas, which set up a field goal that put Lehigh ahead 17-7.But a two-point loss left Coen wishing he’d gone to the well a little more often.“I wish I’d called a few more...