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...travels in China in the 13th century, Marco Polo was amazed at the widespread burning of coal. He referred to the fuel as "black stones," and reported that "they may be had in the greatest abundance, and at a cheap rate." Today, China is the world's largest coal producer, increasing output each year to feed its rapidly growing economy. But the cost in human lives is anything but low. Thousands of miners die in China's coal mines every year. The government put the number at 6,434 last year, but labor- and human-rights groups say the true...
...cold Chicago day in the late 1990s, physicist David Grier was fiddling around in his laboratory with a cheap piece of plastic and a laser. Grier and a graduate student named Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap" - a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. Multiple traps, used in tandem, could let the scientists play traffic cop on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts - removing bacteria from blood, for example. But first they had to make it work. For a year, Grier...
...This is just a more technical version of covering your cough or sneeze,” Nardell said. “And its really, really cheap...
...freshman’s average Harvard party consists of choking down a case of Beast with underage friends in the Wigglet. But cheap liquor in sweaty rooms leaves an aftertaste, driving many upperclassmen to more sophisticated venues. Increasingly, stores have become the answer to limited on-campus party space. The appeal? A setting less noisy than a bar, less typical than a sit-down dinner. Ladies and gentlemen, the bar has been raised—and moved to some unlikely places. FM offers up a few options for all aspiring P. Diddys...
...steel industry the only industry that feeds at the public trough. Other countries grant an incredible degree of protection to certain domestic industries, and they, too, should remove their trade barriers. We are particularly concerned about the “dumping” of cheap steel subsidized by foreign governments that compelled Congress to pass the Byrd Amendment. Dumping is just as anti-competitive as raising tariffs...