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But when hundreds of thousands of Chinese started showing up in my country, working hard on the railroads and the mines and then kicking back in the evening just like they had in the old country with a few puffs on that opium pipe, that's when you saw the first drug prohibition laws in California and Nevada, driven by racist fears of Chinese transforming white women into opium-addicted sex slaves.
China has more coal-fired power plants than any other country in the world, about 40 percent of the global total, and it's because of this fact that China's government has decided since 2014 to wage a war on coal, shutting down small coal mines, setting limits on coal consumption, even canceling an Australia's worth of coal-fired power plants.
And it's found in cotton fields, and coltan mines, and even car washes in Norway and England.
Well, 80 percent of the men in Lesotho worked in the mines over the border, in brutal conditions.
He was home on his three-month leave from the mines.
When the missionary, Bartolomé de las Casas, visited the island, he wrote, 'From 1494 to 1508, over 3,000,000 people had perished from war, slavery and the mines.
Phone waste can also end up in huge dump sites, leaching toxic chemicals into the soil and water, mirroring the problems of the mines where the elements originated.
I once had this nightmare: I'm standing in the middle of a deserted field full of land mines.
In 2007, the Washington Post reported that the United States military was testing this robot that defused land mines.
And the way it worked was it was shaped like a stick insect and it would walk around a minefield on its legs, and every time it stepped on a mine, one of the legs would blow up, and it would continue on the other legs to blow up more mines.
The deepest mines are much deeper than the tallest buildings are tall, so you can alleviate any arbitrary level of urban congestion with a 3D tunnel network.
The idea of public education was for coal miners, who would work in the coal mines all day, then they'd come home and they should have the dignity to be able to read a novel and understand it.
For now, however, he was only a slave – one of millions taken from the territories conquered by Rome to work the mines, till the fields, or fight for the crowd’s entertainment.
Now imagine if there were land mines buried right here, scattered around, and you'd never know when you might step on one.
As a result of a 50-year internal armed conflict, we have an undetermined number of land mines buried throughout the countryside, affecting more than one third of the Colombian population.
These anti-personnel mines are designed to maim, not to kill their targets.
She helped me to understand how deeply our country has been affected by land mines and by war.
While in grad school, I started developing an augmented reality, really broad application to help military personnel to deactivate land mines more safely.
During that time, I also realized that Colombia is not the only country in the world that has to worry about land mines.
While some countries are trying to get rid of land mines, some others are increasing their use.
But what happens when a conflict that involved land mines comes to an end?
On the one hand, the internally displaced population will start returning to their lands, and on the other hand, hidden land mines are going to start exploding more often on the civilian side.
We want to go big, and we want to scale the project to every single place where land mines are still a threat.
Long-held devotion to logging and to mines and to agriculture, and to no government regulation; values that worked well in the past, but they don't seem to be working well today.
But when I was a teenager, the coal mines and the steelworks closed, and the entire area was devastated.
Because 100 years ago, the biggest danger in the South Wales coal mines was gas.
Other elements were mines, weather, approaches and elevation.
OK, onto the mines.
The first asking price for the property when we looked at it in 1998 was one billion dollars for 180 acres and a couple of mines.
This is one of the mines.
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