South Africa's police are under scrutiny for other cases of violence, such as the Aug. 16 shooting into a crowd of mine protesters armed mostly with machetes and sticks, which left 34 people dead.

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And you do have to convert to reserves to be able to mine it: well, mostly.

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Blankenship has kept Massey focused stubbornly on Central Appalachia, where a century of digging has left seams mostly too short and thin to mine profitably at current prices.

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Or, a friend of mine, white, recently told me that her boys are attending a mostly black public school and making a lot of friends -- but also picking up their way of using the N-word as a marker of fellowship.

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