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...groups and the state's underground miners, who want to keep their jobs. But leaders of the United Mine Workers and the coal industry raised key objections. For one, strip mining is more than twice as productive per man day as deep mining. For another, it is safer; about 3,000 of the U.S.'s 104,500 underground coal miners have "black lung" disease, and another 200 die each year in roof falls and related accidents. Whatever the controversial bill's fate, observers were amazed that...
...cyclist is more vulnerable in collisions because he does not have the protection that an auto affords. Road conditions, skills, reflexes and operator training are all more critical in driving a two-wheel vehicle. As you say, it may be antisocial. We wish it were safer...
Because conservative Republicans "fear for their lives" when they come to Harvard, 25 young Republicans will go to Washington next Monday and Tuesday to visit them where they presumably feel safer...
...could be certain whether he was safer indoors or outside. At the Midnight Mission along downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, Nicolo Difilipantonio, 70, fled into the street-and was killed by chunks of roofing that fell from the aged building. The mission's 200 other occupants were unhurt; they remained inside. In Sylmar, near the quake's epicenter in the San Gabriel Mountains, Linda Daniheux, 25, remained in bed -and died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton...
...confrontation Friday added weight to the growing notion among Cambridge residents that measures must be taken to make the city's schools safer...