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...paintings of Ahmad Zakii Anwar are best viewed from the vantage of the tropical street where the artist was born in 1955 and still lives. It is lined with rust-mottled Proton sedans and boxy concrete houses, and wedged into the forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There...
...really try to match lines,” Stone said of the adjustments, “but we sort of spotted where we wanted them and everything worked out well.” NOT SO SPECIAL Harvard’s special teams showed signs of early-season rust over the weekend. “This time of year special teams are the things that are usually not as sharp, so we’ll just keep working on it,” Stone said. The Crimson committed seven penalties against Quinnipiac, with four coming in the second frame, including separate...
...breakaway and shorthanded score for PEI’s Craig Foster that brought the margin back to one goal at 4-3. “We all made mistakes out there today,” Taylor said of the miscue. “[We were] shaking the rust off, and it didn’t matter if you were a freshman or a senior.” A series of penalties in the third period resulted in each team enjoying well over a minute of 5-on-3 play, but neither was able to capitalize. Harvard managed to pull away...
...application process, however, is highly technical and creating a very hot niche. One company turning rust into gold is Matcor, a corrosion-engineering firm in Doylestown, Pa. Specializing in cathodic protection, Matcor posted revenues of about $10 million in 2006 and annual growth from 25% to 30% over the past five years. U.S. government regulations with strict compliance measures require all newly laid oil and natural gas pipelines to have cathodic protection, says William Schutt, Matcor's president. But even more significant, he says, is the country's aging infrastructure--many pipelines were installed with more primitive cathodic protection...
...degree program. Luis Proenza, president of the university, says the program's first students could be admitted as early as fall 2009. The demand is coming from both sides--the pipeline owners and operators, and the corrosion-prevention-service companies. "This market is going to grow exponentially," Proenza says. Rust, you have been warned...