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...rusting Hulks of Bethlehem Steel's blast furnaces and coke ovens cast a long shadow over the Lehigh Valley. "Bessie" once employed 30,000 people in its namesake town in northeastern Pennsylvania. The company survives elsewhere, but what's left of it here has been all but abandoned. The windows of the redbrick warehouses are cracked and clouded. A portion of train trestle stands idle, neither end connected to anything. Such sights would have been unimaginable 30 years ago, when the valley roared with the fires of open-hearth furnaces...
Take a tour of the valley--the very one Bethlehem Steel once symbolized--and you'll find that American manufacturing hasn't disappeared; it is reinventing itself. As Bessie and many of its fellow titans have marched slowly into bankruptcy, a new breed of manufacturing company has quietly emerged in the Lehigh Valley and in cities across the U.S., even amid one of the worst manufacturing purges in recent memory. More than 2 million of the 2.5 million jobs lost over the past two years were in the manufacturing sector, and many are gone forever. But the U.S. economy...
John Jones, CEO of Air Products & Chemicals, remembers what it was like to be a young engineering graduate in the 1970s, when Bethlehem Steel was king of the valley. "When I was getting out of school, that was one of the places to go," he says. "When people asked me where I was working, and I'd say Air Products," he says, the usual response was pity. "They would go, 'Awww.'" Today Air Products, with 4,300 workers, has replaced Bessie as the valley's largest industrial employer...
...Bethlehem stable, a child was born, wrapped in swaddling clothes, laid in a manger ... To Christians--and perhaps to a good many others at this time of year--the familiar details seem etched on the heart. Yet they have been questioned by liberal scholars for years. Though often believers themselves, these scriptural experts have challenged nearly everything in the Nativity story: the angels, the star, even the wise men. As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races...
This time, Lehigh was the opponent, 12 was the early second-half deficit and one point was as close as the Crimson got before the Mountain Hawks pulled away to an 88-79 victory at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa. Saturday night...