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Good reporting is seldom easy or comfortable. But for correspondent Ted Gup, getting to the bottom of this week's BUSINESS story about life and hard times in a West Virginia coal community was especially unsettling. "The first time I entered a low-seam coal mine was one of the most claustrophobic experiences of my life," says Gup. "You lie on your back on a metal sled, and the distance between the floor and ceiling is never greater than 40 inches. You're in utter darkness -- except for the light on your hard hat. You eat your lunch on your...
...investigative reporter with a taste for hands-on journalism, there was no question that to write about coal miners he would have to go into the mines. Two years ago, he logged 35,000 miles following the trail of illicit ivory for a cover story about the endangered elephant. Last year he spent 10 days with loggers in the forests of Oregon to cover the battle over the spotted owl. "If a story is worth doing, it's worth doing thoroughly," he says. "I find that whatever truth there is emerges not in the second or third interview, but well...
...disaster. Actors were recruited to play the gladiators and were directed to adopt fake personalities. The costumes were tacky, and the overall style was uncomfortably close to the campiness of pro wrestling. "It was a schlock job," says Ferraro. "Out of a diamond, they gave you a piece of coal...
...book published in 1987, Reynolds argued that the cost to national economy of unions in 1984 was at least $80 billion, or 2 percent of GNP. He cites the example of the coal industry, whose workers have become increasingly hostile to unions as their working conditions have improved. Although unionized mines have basically the same working conditions as non-union mines, they have a lower productivity rate...
...times change. In June 1990, 6,000 coal miners from western Romania rampaged through Bucharest at President Ion Iliescu's invitation to break up an antigovernment protest. Last week 7,000 miners from the same region again took to the streets of the capital. Their aim: to oust Prime Minister Petre Roman, whom they had supported just 15 months before...