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...turn, only because Mount Storm would burn it. Tipple and boiler were linked by a two-mile covered conveyor belt that carried coal from the east portal of the mine straight to the storage silos of the power plant. The miners still marvel at the sheer handiness of the setup. "That coal never touched the ground," they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOUNT STORM, WEST VIRGINIA: COAL WAR | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...against Qubilah rested on taped conversations in which she talked about the plan. But the tapes were provided by a dubious witness, Michael Fitzpatrick, a former schoolmate of Qubilah's who was also an FBI informer. Farrakhan himself was among the many who eventually labeled the whole affair a setup, charging that Fitzpatrick had pushed Qubilah into the scheme so he could turn her over in exchange for leniency on drug charges he faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BETTY SHABAZZ: THE TROUBLES SHE'S SEEN | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...that the derision is difficult to understand. Education is a setup for ridicule. Old people stuck in place deliver old information to new people about to move up and out. The adamant vs. the supple. The strait-laced vs. the unlaced, over whom they exert a flimsy and temporary authority. Every classroom is an implicit smirk. Write what you feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUDYING STUDENTS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...Necessary Hunger is the kind of irresistible read you start on the subway at 6 p.m. on the way home from work and keep plowing through until you've turned the last page at 3 a.m. in bed. The setup: a Japanese-American high school basketball player falls in love with a rival African-American player. Complication No. 1: Both are girls. Complication No. 2: Their single parents (one's dad and the other's mom) fall for each other too. Revoyr's great accomplishment is that her story is never strained. It beats with the pulse of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NO MAN'S LAND | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...stunning sound and vision, along with the various bells and whistles that digital storage's interactive ease and sheer data acreage allow, including PG- and R-rated versions of a given movie on one disc, multiple languages, no rewinding, movie-and-game pairings, instant searches and every custom setup and picture adjustment that early adopting cinephiles could possibly get all hot and bothered over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEXT GREAT GADGET | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

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