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...people who don't want to wear a badge or a gun and are simply good thinkers, people who can look at seemingly unrelated events and connect the dots. Agents are now permitted to attend public gatherings in mosques and other religious and academic settings, search the Internet and mine commercial databases used by the financial-services industry. And "the wall"--a set of legal rules that kept agents working on secret intelligence-gathering missions from talking to prosecutors about their observations--has been bulldozed. "Mueller is changing the culture," says Representative Frank Wolf, who oversees the bureau's budget...
...better view of the situation, John Sparkman guns his flame-red truck up a massive pile of gravel. From the summit, a lifeless brown wasteland stretches to the horizon, like a scene from a science-fiction movie. Mountains of mine tailings, some as tall as 13-story buildings, others as wide as four football fields, loom over streets, homes, churches and schools. Dust, laced with lead, cadmium and other poisonous metals, blows off the man-made hills and 800 acres of dry settling ponds. "It gets in your teeth," says Sparkman, head of a local citizens' group. "It cakes...
Hyperbole? Drive through the desolate towns around Picher, Okla., and you might think differently. This is eco-assault on an epic scale. The prairie here in the northeast corner of the state is punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with...
...grimmest legacy of a century of intensive lead and zinc mining are the "lead heads," or "chat rats," as the kids who grew up around here are known. As toddlers, they played in sandboxes of chat--the powdery output of mills after ore is extracted from rock. As preteens, they rode their bikes across the gravel mounds and swam in lime-green sinkholes. Their parents used mine tailings to make driveways and foundations, never thinking that contaminated dust might blow through the heating ducts of their ranch houses. In the past decade, studies have shown that...
...Dust To Dust France closed its last remaining coal mine, bringing an end to the nearly 300-year-old industry. Nuclear power provides the country with 80% of its energy needs...