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Search results for "cave in" ...
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The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
The book investigates an underground mine fire that has raged out of control since John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, spewing toxic gases and causing the relocation of an entire mining community. Drawing on interviews with key participants and new research, the book exposes the failures of major political and government figures, and investigates individual rights, corporate privilege and governmental indifference to the powerless.
Tags: mining accident; cave in; fire; natural disasters; government; relief; relocation
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Too much time, Too few answers
The Crandall Canyon min in Huntington, Utah collapsed, killing six miners and a subsequent cave-ion took the lives of three rescuers. The event was blamed on a mine bounce, when pressure from the roof causes the thick coal pillars supporting the roof to explode. Several months earlier in March a major bounce occurred 900 feet from where the collapse in August happened, and it was never reported to federal mine regulators. Mining experts wondered why the federal regulators approved the original mine plan to begin with.
Tags: accident; mine; land management; coal; mine safety; Robert Murray; Richard Stickler; MSHA
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A matter of safety: Utah's Coal Mines
"Despite a long history of mine disasters, Utah coal mines still consistently and repeatedly break even the most essential of safety rules."
Tags: mining; coal mines; mine safety; safety violations; mine evacuation; cave-in;
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Bitter Pills
"Medicines for cancer, cholesterol, blood pressure - even the front-line defense against bird flu - are being counterfeited by international rings." Dateline NBC examines how "loopholes in existing government regulations have allowed the fakes to reach U.S. drug stores - even major chains like CVS and Rite Aid." The investigation into this potential health risk found, among other things, a cocaine smuggler who now counterfeits Lipitor "because there was less risk and more money." Also, photos of counterfeit operations revealed some "based in caves, others using drywall, cement and highway paint among their ingredients."
Tags: Counterfeit drugs; counterfeit medicines; drug tracking; health risks
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No title (id: 10979)
A report on the migration of Nazi war criminals to Argentina, with the discovery of a former Gestapo chief of Rome, responsible for the execution fo 335 civilians in the Ardeatine caves of Rome. ABC News found Erich Priebke living in a resort village in the Argentine Andes, 40+ years after his escape from post-war Europe.
Tags: Sam Donaldson; Harry Phillips; tape; 7 pages
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No title (id: 10496)
In These Times describes how the Clinton administration has caved in on important environmental questions, particularly threats to the ozone layer; article shows how the technology is available to correct the problem but U.S. stalling has prevented it from being implemented and encouraged other countries to stall, Jan. 24, 1994.
Tags: DC Moberg CFC 4 pages
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No title (id: 10091)
Washington Post Magazine profiles Elliot Richardson, the attorney general who resigned rather than cave in to Richard Nixon's pressure, and his new quest to solve the Inslaw scandal; includes a description of Inslaw.
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No title (id: 8438)
KCBA-TV (Salinas, Calif.) reports on a community of 200 migrant farm workers living in terrible conditions in dugout caves in a Salinas, Calif., hillside; county officials had known of the illegal situation for months but had taken no action, Aug. 26 - 29, 1991.
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No title (id: 7978)
In Health investigates the suicide of a French woman who lived in a cave without contact of any kind with the outside world for 111 days as part of a biological and psychological experiment; wonders whether her death can be blamed on reckless science, March/April 1991.
Tags: Hall NASA