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...Anything short of a clean start for Corsica could prove disastrous. It would be a travesty of the bill's intent if nationalists ended up sharing power on the island while still supporting more radical underground groups accused of perpetrating violence and crime. That would likely provoke a get-tough reversal of Corsican policy by Paris - and derail projects to speed devolution to other regions...
...miners working 12-hour shifts in the hills see little of the gold they bring out of the earth. Although working underground in makeshift mud tunnels is highly dangerous?occasionally fatal?it is the workers in the processing units who are in the gravest immediate peril. Unlike Femmy, whose baby was born with tragic deformities, many of the workers say that after educational campaigns by NGOs and the local government, they now know mercury can harm them. But the risk is more than offset by the high wages?nearly $50 a month, or double what they could make from...
...seeped into an underground bunker, where pumps designed to empty the basin of groundwater released it outside...
Green was born in Salt Lake City. He was brought up a Mormon, and did two years of missionary work for the church in Indiana and Michigan before returning to Utah to study church history. "It was then I saw polygamy had not been abandoned; it just went underground," he says. For proclaiming his belief in polygamy, Green underwent a four-hour excommunication trial in 1980. "For them it was a ticket to hell," Green says. "I saw it as a graduation...
...fall, Mystery has had five hardcover U.S. printings, and is already the best-selling book in the history of Peru. De Soto almost ran for President last month, when polls showed him coming in third. But he decided he could have more influence working from the outside--and from underground...