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Inside the Mink Branch mine, far below the muddy clutter of wood siding and decrepit machines at the opening, the Hamiltons were taking coal by "shooting from the solid." This problematic technique consists of detonating tubes of explosives tamped a few feet into a coal seam. (Safer, mechanized extraction techniques would cost at least twice as much...
...night got to sleep on bare springs. The rest slept on chairs or on newspapers spread on the floor, their shoes under their heads so that they would know if someone tried to steal them. Most of the homeless, says Hayes, "found life on the streets less degrading and safer than staying in those places...
...when I was a child, the war began. Our family was thrown out of our house. We lived in a school for many days. Then we lived some place else. Once the war began, every place was dangerous. No place seemed safer than another." Still, Ahmed says that he was not afraid, even at so young an age, because "I figured out that a man may only die once...
...University Health Services, doctors formerly frequently sterilized women by hysterectomy before the advent of safer, simpler tubal ligation methods...
Rawson sees at least two ways to cut back on boxing injuries: better matchups and safer facilities. "We'd like to see better places for the men to box," he said. "They need better rings and there's got to be adequate medical rooms," he explained...