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Tough going is nothing new for Reid, who was born 67 years ago in Searchlight, Nev., a Mojave Desert town so small that he had the same teacher for his first eight years of school. His father was a hard-drinking miner, and his mother took in washing from local brothels. As an adult, Reid converted to Mormonism. (He is to the right of his caucus on social issues, being against abortion and most gun-control measures...
...Number of coal-miner deaths in 2006, a 10-year high, reversing an 80-year trend of steady decreases...
...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...
...Chen Bulei believes there is room for China's leaders to be convinced that it serves their own long-term interests to safeguard the legal rights of people like the miner Zhao. Chen, a member of the Communist Party with a Ph.D. from a top law school, once worked as a policeman and later as a judge in a Beijing court. Both experiences, he says, strengthened his conviction that China needs more people who can "demonstrate to the leadership that the rule of law needs to be strengthened and that citizens' rights should expand." In the legal-theory classes that...
...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...