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...Zhao, his fellow miners called him -- a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner's lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China's Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. "Many of them are very young--just boys," Zhao says, pausing to light...
...university told the paper that their budget would not be restored, according to Editor-in-Chief Christopher Stryker. “The biggest thing is nobody asked us any questions whatsoever...all we got was this response,” Stryker said. Yesterday evening The Miner was in the process of getting a lawyer. UMR’s Student Council declined to comment on the budget cut, directing comment requests to the University’s Communications Office. UMR Director of Communications Andrew Careaga said Friday that The Miner’s complaint has been referred to the university?...
Tough going is nothing new for Reid, who was born 67 years ago in Searchlight, Nev., a Mojave Desert town so small that he had the same teacher for his first eight years of school. His father was a hard-drinking miner, and his mother took in washing from local brothels. As an adult, Reid converted to Mormonism. (He is to the right of his caucus on social issues, being against abortion and most gun-control measures...
...Number of coal-miner deaths in 2006, a 10-year high, reversing an 80-year trend of steady decreases...
...Chen Bulei believes there is room for China's leaders to be convinced that it serves their own long-term interests to safeguard the legal rights of people like the miner Zhao. Chen, a member of the Communist Party with a Ph.D. from a top law school, once worked as a policeman and later as a judge in a Beijing court. Both experiences, he says, strengthened his conviction that China needs more people who can "demonstrate to the leadership that the rule of law needs to be strengthened and that citizens' rights should expand." In the legal-theory classes that...