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...Days lost by the average worker at West Virginia's Sago coal mine, where an explosion last week left 12 miners dead...
...died at Sago, Martin Toler Jr., wrote a note in his last hours: "Tell all I see them on the other side." It was the last sentiment of a man whom family described as deeply religious. But it was also a simple metaphor for the daily hope of every worker who delves in those deep reaches: to rise again and see the faces they love once more. And the fervent wish?felt, in our direst hours, by even the most secular among us?to step from the darkness into the light...
...fighting special interests, deplored the "broken" budget process, called the education system a "disaster" and declared that the state-employees pension system was "out of control." In his place, legislators heard a chastened Governor offering a plan to please any populist?or teacher, bond salesman, union member, hourly worker, college student or construction-company owner. "The people, who always have the last word, sent a clear message?cut the warfare, cool the rhetoric, find common ground and fix the problems together," Schwarzenegger said. "So to my fellow Californians, I say?message received." Among other things, he proposes to repay elementary...
...most thorough dispersion of wealth to villages and small cities. The southern state of Kerala, not far from Madras, is full of billboards advertising gold jewelry. At most local weddings, the bride is expected to turn up covered in gold necklaces, bangles, and earrings. Ambika Menon, a Kerala social worker, says that the gold obsession is a manifestation of change. New money is breaking down old hierarchies and caste distinctions. "Putting gold on your daughter at her wedding is a way of announcing, 'I've arrived in society. I'm someone important,'" Menon says...
...post offense, which had been weakened by the loss of star center Elise Morrison early in the year with a season-ending injury. Harvard missed defensive stalwart Christiana Lackner, a junior who was injured in practice on Friday.Dartmouth forward Sydney Scott—a “blue collar worker,” said Delaney-Smith—finished with 24 points and 11 rebounds. For the crowd of 1342, the atmosphere was charged with the anticipation of yet another classic between the two schools.“It was definitely nerves in the first half,” Rollins...