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...last decade, much of the West's steel industry has been in the doldrums. Sinking prices and flat demand, rising costs and competition from Asia turned steel belts into rust belts as once-mighty American titans like LTV and Bethlehem Steel went belly up. Many of Europe's former communist bloc governments determinedly sold off their dilapidated, money-losing steel mills. Workers around the globe were bounced out of the devilishly cyclical industry in droves. Even bosses were shying away: in 1998, Michael Frenzel, then chairman of German industrial concern Preussag, became so fed up with the smokestack rollercoaster that...
...were able to get some rust out of our engine and get some energy,” Fish said of the first days of competition...
McLean-Foreman showed no signs of rust from the off-season—and in position to be one of the best runners in the Northeast...
...West are attributed to drought (complicated by decades of fire suppression that have resulted in an overgrowth of trees). And nowhere is the beetle infestation worse than in the mountains of Southern California, whose stressed-out forests harbor hundreds of thousands of beetle-killed trees. These trees, some with rust-colored needles still hanging from their limbs, serve as standing fuel for fires, and an effort is under way to remove as many as possible along the roads inhabitants in the San Jacinto, San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains must take when fire comes to call...
...only two dimensions, but a brief scramble over the rocks puts you on the lip. A wedge-tailed eagle, glossy black against the sunburnt sky, patrols the circumference in majestic sweeping curves. Chunks of broken sandstone glow a warm pale orange; welded under and around them are balls of rust-colored shale, their surfaces pitted and folded - oxidized remnants of the meteorite. New nickel-bearing minerals were found here, one named reevesite after the crater's discoverer...