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...broadly collaborative approach is working elsewhere in Africa as well. BHP Billiton (2005 revenues: $32 billion), an international petroleum and mining company, joined a similar partnership of businesses, charities and government organizations to decrease malaria rates in southern Mozambique, where the conglomerate has an aluminum smelter...
...Richard Evans The CEO of Montreal-based Alcan, the world's No. 2 aluminum producer, talks with TIME about how he hopes to position aluminum to become a "precious" commodity again...
...Richard Evans The CEO of Montreal-based Alcan, the world's No. 2 aluminum producer, talks with TIME about how he hopes to position aluminum to become a "precious" commodity again...
...Steele's office, which he shares with his deckhand, Barry Moore, is a $750,000 aluminum boat, Cutloose, equipped with six beds, a shower, toilet, TV, microwave oven and satellite navigation that directs them to any of the 78 pots they've placed on the ocean floor. "Since I started, the technology's gone from a watch, compass and flagpoles to state-of-the-art stuff," says Steele, 49. Throw in quotas and faster boats, and "it's a day game now." Still, in fishing season the days start at about 3 a.m. and leave Steele exhausted. Decades...
...Borroloola's problems due to alcohol continue. Just last month an Aboriginal woman stabbed her elderly partner in the stomach with a bread knife during a drinking session at their home. Such incidents are as common in the Top End as the crunch of green aluminum cans underfoot, and the slowly decaying human beings who have discarded them...