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...equity stake, which would double Chinalco's overall ownership position in Rio. The $19.5 billion deal amounts to the largest foreign investment any company in China has ever made. Two days ago, another state-owned firm, China Minmetals, said it would pay $1.7 billion in cash for Oz Minerals ltd., the world's second largest zinc miner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Buys Australia On the Cheap | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...children. Dolores Huerta, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America—although delicate in appearance—exudes the calm passion and power that distinguishes leaders of her incredible historical stature. The daughter of a waitress and a coal miner, Señora Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts it, a “testament to the power each one of us possesses to make a positive difference.” Her acceptance of the Reverend Professor...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo, Miguel Garcia, and Eliana C. Murillo | Title: Yes, She Did! | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...made near Pittsburgh, Pa., is set in an "inbred mining town" called Harmony, where, years before, a nut in a miner's suit and mask killed a bunch of high school kids with appropriate tools, mainly a pickax. Now he, or a copycat, is again bloodily reducing the population - as if the Rust Belt didn't have enough problems. The principles here are sheriff Axel Palmer (Kerr Smith), his wife Sarah (horror honey Jaime King) and the mine owner's son Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), who was Sarah's beau back in the previously awful day. To secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...victim gets her face sliced through sideways at the mouth, the head sliding slowly down the shovel, everything from the jaw and below dropping out of frame.) Such are the reductive pleasures of horror movies; they turn viewers into connoisseurs of sadism, co-conspirators with the madman performing his miner atrocities. It's what we're here for, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...truth of the matter is that, this fellow is incredibly talented and he’s like a magnet,” Miner said. “When he landed in Chicago, there were lots of people that wanted to meet...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama's Quiet Harvard Roots | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

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