Tourism Helping Bolivian Mine Town

AP Online;  May 13, 1999 ;   PETER McFARREN, Associated Press Writer;   726 words ......Miguel Angel Delgadillo helps a group of German tourists put on hard hats, rubber boots and jackets, then hands them a carbon lamp. Chewing coca leaf, he leads then into the Grito de Piedra mine. After an hour of crouching, jumping over deep holes and avoiding...

HARPER'S MAGAZINE ON AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION WITH ME.(Editorial)(Column)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 18, 1996 ;     621 words ......like to ``ruffle feathers on both the left and right wings'' of politics. Do you have to put down your diamond cutters and carbon-lamp hats to do that? Suddenly, you are out of the mines and promising ``a fascinating, kaleidoscopic view of our paradoxical world...

THE LENOX CLUB.(Friday Home Guide)(Apartment Hunting)

The Washington Times;  December 20, 1996 ;   Hutchinson, Amy;   426 words ......bathroom has a ceramic tile floor and ceramic floor-to-ceiling shower/tub tile, a recessed-mirror medicine cabinet and a heat lamp/heater. Eight-inch-thick concrete walls and floors help ensure a quiet environment. There is a sprinkler system and a smoke detection...

Rudolph Ely Boschwitz; Believer in the American Dream His political and...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 24, 1996 ;   Smith, Dane;   787 words ......Boschwitz's father, Ely, is described as a well-to-do and highly successful Jewish industrialist and civic leader who sold his carbon-lamp factory in Germany and became a commercial court judge and a trustee for several banks. Although there were some rocky times...

New annealing process will speed chip production. (Materials...

Semiconductor International;  May 1, 2002 ;   Dance, Brian;   647 words ......consumption. The target energy consumption is 6-20 kW for a 300 mm wafer system, compared with 250-3 50 kW for a comparable lamp heater. * Reliable spike annealing for the formation of ultra-shallow junctions, which is made possible by the very high heating...