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...turned average Americans into coal miners; that is, it suddenly became plausible to ask, "If I die today doing this job, will it have been worth it?" But unlike the the horror of 9/11, when millions watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV, a mine collapse is horrifying for the opposite reason: we see nothing and hear nothing. A group of men is either alive or dead and?in this age of GPS locators, instant messaging and Google Earth?thousands of feet of antediluvian rock stand between us and knowing their fate...
...found dead, 17 days later, songs were written, and the incident became the basis for a musical, the Robert Penn Warren novel The Cave and the acerbic 1951 Billy Wilder movie Ace in the Hole, in which a small-town reporter hits the big time by exploiting a mine-rescue story...
...silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit, You'll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine...
...singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road), and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound," typified on his million-plus selling signature, You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine...
...Cijeruk, Indonesia, where 200 people were believed to have been killed when a landslide engulfed his village on the island of Java "It wasn't bad/ just went to sleep." MARTIN TOLER JR., one of 12 American miners who died last week after an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia, in a scrawled note found with his body...