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...heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile. "In our traditional tongue, there is no word for relocation...
Ukraine is traditionally referred to as the Soviet Union's "Breadbasket," known for its extremely fertile "black earth" and wheat production. It also has huge quantities of coal and iron, as well as large reserves of oil, natural gas and various minerals...
...voters is partially responsible for his lack of foresight regarding the Falklands crisis; he was away from London much of the time, and he was in Jerusalem just before the invasion. His greatest lapse, his friends and few detractors agree, came during his time as Conservative Party chairman. The coal miners were on strike, and Carrington played a key role in convincing Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath to call pivotal new elections. Heath called them a few weeks after Carrington wanted them, and lost. While people disagree as to the significance of the timing and while many believe the delay...
...know that actor Tommie Lee Jones once played football at Harvard? Maybe he got the Coal Miner's Daughter to take his exams...
...coal-black night in March, the kind astronomers like best. At Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, Princeton Astrophysicist Edwin Turner pointed the 158-in. reflecting telescope first at one distant pinpoint of light in the sky, then at a neighboring one. A few hours later, studying the results of his night's labors, Turner could hardly believe his eyes. "It was a big surprise," he says. "But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something...