Her green eyes meet mine, and the little twinge of sadness I was feeling turns into an undertow.

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

Same week that this happened I got a call from another neighbor of mine in Bowling Green, a little boy had a broken foot and crutches.

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They poured in their money, built a railroad to haul out all that lovely green ore and, within a few years, the remote Kennecott Mine, as it became known, was earning them millions.

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Laura Klitzka -- this is a friend of mine, somebody I met when I was campaigning in Wisconsin -- Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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But for a brief minute or two, surveying all that green, that gorgeous view standing beside a gorgeous woman, people believed it was all mine.

FORBES: Getting Over Our Over-Levered Selves

And I do have to admit that it rather tickles me that at least some of that lithium to be all green and renewable will actually be extracted from the pollution of the last century, those mine dumps.

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