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...What Mettle! Shares in European steel producers were dented after two of the world's largest mining companies negotiated a 72% hike in iron ore prices with Japanese steel mills. The agreements were interpreted as a sign of broader increases to come in the cost of iron ore, a key component in steel production...
...Temperatures can drop to ?30C in April, so players have to tee off in the type of gear usually sported by polar explorers. Competitors need crampons to grip the icy course, tinted goggles to reduce glare and golf clubs with steel shafts, as graphite can shatter in extreme cold. The local wildlife also creates some unique challenges. The course is watched over by spotters with rifles in case one of the archipelago's 3,000 polar bears starts taking too close an interest in a caddy...
...really went out of their way to make sure we were treated no differently, I still had a couple of unfortunate incidents. My first year I nearly flunked out of physics and thought, "Oh, I really don't belong here." In my second year, I was taking a steel-design class with only one other woman in the class. And the professor, at the beginning of the course, looked at us and said, "Neither one of you should be here because women should not be in engineering." I thought, "I haven't even taken a test...
Mather House, which was built in 1970 and is Harvard’s newest house, has architecture unique to the University, composed primarily of steel, glass, and concrete...
...fraught than they were a year ago. China continues to grow fast: last year its economy expanded a breathtaking 9.5%. The country is still sucking in huge amounts of natural resources to fuel its manufacturing boom. That in turn is a significant factor in the rising prices for oil, steel and other commodities, which is good news for producers, but--especially in the case of oil--is raising fears of a worldwide resurgence of inflation. China also has a fragile banking system that is hampered by bad loans and a weak capital base...