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...About a mile off the twisting, two-lane road to the south of Central City, Pa., set back in the woods along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes...
...explains that the club also has a social aspect. “We organize Fight Nights where we watch championship fights,” he says. The group recently gathered to watch the Holyfield fight. They also bond by doing community service together, like a recent 10-mile charity run at Tufts...
...know it’s good that children in these two towns can fly through information on the Internet and gain an understanding of the world outside their 20-mile-wide lives. But they haven’t gained anything from MTV or McDonald’s except for mass-produced crudeness and fat. Not to say that 40 years ago my father was empty on crudeness in his humor or fat in his food, but there is something excusable about the homegrown crudeness of second-generation seniors at the high school and fat-dripping burgers at the local diner...
...enough of lame inflight entertainment? The AV340 video and music player from French firm Archos might just be the answer to mile-high boredom. Its 40-GB hard disk can easily store 30 feature films to watch on its 9.7-cm color screen, and still leave room for a few thousand MP3 tracks. All this in a package that weighs just 0.35 kg. The Archos ($1,000) can record straight from TV or hi-fi, so you don't have to waste time compressing audio and video files on your computer. And when you land, you can hook...
Plimpton exhibited his Lampoon-cultivated humor when, as an April Fools’ joke in 1985, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated profiling Sidd Finch, a fictitious Harvard dropout who learned to throw a 168-mile-per-hour fastball while studying yoga at a Tibetan monastery...