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...time when the industry is facing increased competition from producers such as Saudi Arabia and Mexico and could lead U.S. companies in the future to build plants abroad. In South Charleston last Saturday, about 500 people marched in support of Union Carbide. Yet most residents of West Virginia's Chemical Valley were caught between worries about their safety and about their region's economy. "There's a real dichotomy," said Russell Wehrle, chairman of the National Institute for Chemical Studies, a valley citizens group formed after the Bhopal tragedy. "People are saying they want the jobs, but they also want...
...stranger coming upon the gorgeous green mountains soaring over the Tug Fork Valley of West Virginia near the Kentucky border would not, at first glance, suspect that a combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead...
...many ways, he says, their quality "is quite comparable to anything the Ivy League has to offer," despite costs in some cases half that of the storied private institutions. "If I had to name the best school on all counts," says Moll, "that school is the University of Virginia. It's a very serious, very demanding, good place." And increasingly popular. This year Virginia ($8,686 for out-of-staters) had 9,272 applicants for about 1,000 out-of-state places. "We are cost effective," says Assistant Admissions Director Thomas Grexa...
...Ezra Bowen. Reported by Andrew Blauvelt/San Francisco and Timothy Loughran/Boston Most expensive Total cost Bennington $17,210 M.I.T. $17,030 Barnard $16,842 Princeton $16,790 Yale $16,650 Moll's best buys Total cost[*] U. of N. Carolina $7,470 Miami U. (Ohio) $8,635 U. of Virginia $8,686 U. of Texas $9,620 William & Mary...
...Certainly down-home food is not new to regulars at such enduring American establishments as Mrs. Wilkes' Boarding House in Savannah, where guests sit at community lunch tables and help themselves from ten to twelve bowls and platters of meats, salads and vegetables. Nor is it at the Virginia Rowell McDonald Tea Room in Gallatin, Mo., where fried gizzards, tomato rosettes and roast chicken with corn-bread dressing are being served as they have been for the past 54 years...