Word: minerality
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...that he was almost certain to lose. Pacing confidently before a packed courtroom in the northeastern Chinese city of Haicheng earlier this year, he scored rhetorical points so deftly that sympathetic onlookers pumped their fists like fans at a sporting event. Chen's client, a 56-year-old talc miner named Zhao Jitian, was on trial for "assembling a mob to disrupt social order"-a politically charged criminal offense often invoked to silence Chinese citizens who band together to air grievances against their employers or the government. Police in Haicheng had arrested Zhao five months earlier after he took part...
...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...
...Crystals are my world," says the former agate miner, showing a visitor through the glittering galleries in the artificial cave-complete with polyurethane stalactites and stalagmites-he's made in the basement of the store...
...knees knocking their noses, for a ferocious, "did that just happen?" dunk? Well, as amazing as he is, anointing Miami Heat superstar guard and NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade the rightful heir to His Airness is just silly - just as it was before with such flameouts as Harold Miner, or stars in their own right like Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant...
...been a Murderer (Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song) and a relentless lawman (Marshall Sam Gerard in The Fugitive). He married Loretta Lynn (Coal Miner's Daughter), saved the world from aliens (Men in Black). But the coolest thing Tommy Lee Jones does is ... nothing. Nothing, anyway, that Stanislavski could detect. (He never took an acting class. Didn't matter. Within weeks of graduating from Harvard, he landed a role in a Broadway play.) Jones just puts that rugged, West Texas face on the screen and observes the world with a rattlesnake's poise. He does watching a whole...