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Until lately the county was known for little more than its coal mines and crooked roads. While it's true that leaders staged a fistfight in 1800 to determine where to place the county seat--the town of Tazewell (pop. 4,100) was the winner--residents like to point up their law-and-order quietness with the story of how they once put a cow in jail because they could not tolerate the clanging bell. Now the county's crime woes have made it a case study in how prescription-pill abuse has stressed a judicial system to the breaking...
...making a scant $100,000 a year collecting refuse from factories and, according to Feng, treating it so inexpertly that the company caused more pollution. Feng's younger brother Bo, also one of China's leading VCs, advised him against an investment. "It didn't look like a winner," admits Feng. But with his guidance, Dongjiang now boasts clients such as IBM, bringing in an average of $1 million a month, extracting copper from chipmaking by-products and detoxifying what's left over free of charge...
...line, where assistant captain Ryan Lannon threaded a perfect pass through traffic and squarely onto Du’s stick as he crossed into the Colgate zone. Skating unopposed, the center broke for the net, then nudged the puck across the crease to his forehand and tucked the game-winner inside the right post, ending the fourth-longest contest in the history of the ECAC playoffs four hours and four minutes after it first began at the Pepsi Arena...
...minutes later, Du tiptoed behind the Colgate defense and buried the game-winner...
...Raiders and Catamounts remain in contention for an NCAA at-large bid, though each requires a win in this afternoon’s consolation game…Cavanagh’s goal was his 10th of the season, the most of any Crimson skater. Du’s game-winner was his fourth of the year, a team-high, and his ninth tally overall...