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"FacebookPinterest\n\n World-wide elation over the rescue of 115 miners in China on Monday was quickly eclipsed by the news that 25 miners died in an explosion in a West Virginia coal mine yesterday. Despite early hope that the miners might be saved, it ended up resulting in the worst American mining disaster in the last 25 years. Every time a mining tragedy occurs someone inevitably wonders, \"Why do we even have coal miners?\" Jeanne Marie Laskas tackled that question in her ASME-nominated GQ 2007 feature,  \"Underworld,\" a riveting portrait of a group of West Virginia miners. Worth a re-read. And reflection"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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