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Via the BBC: Drill reaches trapped men in Chile mine.
The good news: the rescue bore hole has reached the miners.
The bad news: it will take another 6 weeks to make the make the it large to use to rescue the miners.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003.
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