Boom Times: Life in China's Shanxi Province.

Shanxi is coal country, and coal is powering China's boom. In March 2007, I traveled there with two other journalists to look at the mining industry's effects on life in the region.

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An overturned c… A cloud of sulf… A worker hauls … Underground coa… Hao Hwa Lin, 25… Posters and cal… A shepherd guid… Hao Zifu, a ret… An opera singer…

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