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...forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China's Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. "Many of them are very young--just boys," Zhao says, pausing to light a cigarette. "I keep seeing their faces in my dreams, and they remind me of my son. He's 27 and works at a mine in the next county...
...cutter, says he signed on at TanzaniteOne because he "felt he would play a part in history." He boasts about running "the world's most sophisticated colored-gemstone-mining operation" and pioneering new technology like an optical sorter adapted from the recycling industry that is used to scan the shaft debris for overlooked tanzanite. Never mind that some systems underground?such as having workers hand-tie sacks of debris onto a pulley rope at 9-sec. intervals?seem straight out of The Flintstones. He's enthusiastic about the potential for mining companies to have a positive impact in Tanzania...
...long prelude to last week's black acts, there might have been a thin shaft of light, and that light might have been an opportunity missed. Roberts was a killer 20 years in the making - that's 20 years of being haunted by what he may have done when he was 12 (the now grown relatives say they have no memories of any such incidents), and 20 years in which he could have stepped forward and sought help...
...name in the new cast - Charlotte D'Amboise, as Cassie, the former headliner on her way down - has the taint of a Broadway also-ran; she was the replacement brought in when Christina Applegate fractured her foot in previews for the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, then got the shaft when Christina hobbled back onstage faster than anyone expected. But these hard-working, high-kicking troupers earn their ovations the old fashioned way: they showcase the material with solid, energetic professionalism - which is just about right for a show that's a paean to the group ethic of the Broadway...
...late 2003, Webster, who produces cards using that traditional process, took possession of letterpress No. 3--he currently owns seven--by dismantling and transporting it piece by piece through a shaft he had dug in a window well. "The owner of the press told me, 'If you can get it out of the basement, it's yours,'" says Webster, 29, who started Seraph Stationery a year and a half...