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...think Cohen-sub Mike Fritz and the rest of the Big Green will keep it close against the surging Bulldogs, fresh off a big-time non-conference win at Lafayette...
...problem is that the approximately 70 House pages are also in school. When Congress is in session during the school year, the pages attend private, junior-level classes each morning at the Library of Congress. In order not to disrupt their studies, Porter's chief of staff, Mike Hesse, suggested the pages' legislative duty be suspended while they finish up the semester at the Library of Congress...
...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...
...member institutions remain tentative about endorsing the new measures. “I think the students can best help by talking to their colleagues at those institutions that have not yet issued support for the program,” wrote Cornell’s DSP working group representative, Mike Powers, in an e-mail. Consortium members who haven’t endorsed DSP include Brown, MIT, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Pennsylvania, and Williams College, according to the consortium’s website...