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...that heating our houses and charging our iPods depends on it?is even more arresting now that such tragedies have become rarer. Particularly when so many Americans work in sterile, comfortable, safe environments, attention must be paid to those who don't. As the son of one dead miner told the New York Times, "He gave his life in there so I could go to the movies...
...However the rumor started-the CEO of the mine company blamed it on a ?miscommunication?-the tragedy hit this Appalachian community hard. Most everyone here knows a miner or works in the mines himself, and hundreds of residents came out to support the families and friends of the trapped men. West Virginia?s governor, Joe Manchin, was on the scene but he too seemed caught up in the euphoria of the false report. ?Miracles do happen,? he said, before learning the truth...
...reality, rescuers at the bottom of the West Virginia mine had said there were no more survivors-and rescuers at the surface, listening through a scratchy connection, had misunderstood. "They managed to turn this town upside down", said Terry Hinchman, a boyhood friend of a deceased miner, Fred Ware Jr., and cousin of another, Marty Bennett. The only survivor: Ronald McCloy, age 23, the youngest of the group. Taken to Ruby Hospital in Morgantown, he was listed in serious condition...
...sooner the better, considering the misery. The miners' slums have become cauldrons of drugs and prostitution in recent years. Sewage trickles through the unpaved streets. Houses are often built of nothing sturdier than flattened gasoline drums, and the surrounding terrain looks moonscaped from the slash-and-burn deforestation. Chávez has begun to organize the miners into some 3,000 government-backed cooperatives, which would be given legal access to any gold-mine reserves the government might take away from idle concessionaires, foreign or Venezuelan. But many miners remain skeptical, especially since the cooperative funds are moving as slowly through...
Mark Partridge Miner remembers lying on a beach in St. Augustine, Fla., looking at the stars and wishing he were fighting in Iraq. So he dropped out of college and volunteered. When he arrived last November, he spent months grudgingly guarding a gate to Baghdad International Airport and yearning to be on the convoys heading into the red zone. His early posts, some of which are addressed to the insurgents ("The whites of my eyes are the last thing you will see before you kiss the feet of my God ..."), are zealous and antsy for action. His later ones, after...