Enterprise and double cross; at the heart of America's industrial decline is a culture of mistrust.
ENTERPRISE AND DOUBLE CROSS In 1985, soon after the Reagan administrationarranged quotas on the importation of foreign steel, the U.S. Steel Corporation dropped plans for new investment in a Utah facility. Instead, it opted to import semi-finished slabs from South Korea to feed its West Coast finishing mills....

Good look at mining laws needed.
Byline: Willie N Ng EARLY this year, Noranda, Inc., of Canada offered itself for sale and today, for something over $5 billion, it will belong lock, stock and barrel, to China MinMetals Corp. Reports the Asian Wall Street Journal: "Noranda is a pillar...

Supreme Court warns company directors on 'undue advantage'.
Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN The Supreme Court (SC) has warned directors of corporations representing corporate creditors against using their offices to secure undue advantage over other creditors who do not have similar representation in the board of directors. "Directors owe loyalty and fidelity to the...

China's steel appetite hurting U.S. industry.
In a June 27, 2003 commentary, The Economist magazine of England noted: "China's steel producers are developing so fast that the country is likely soon to overtake Japan as the world's largest importer of iron ore, a crucial ingredient in the production of steel. Before long, China could turn...

Steel production set to soar.
Two five-year expansion plans announced recently by the managing director of the National Iranian Steel Company (Nisco), Seyed Lankarani, outline the country's intention to lead the shift in commercial grade steel production from Western Europe and Japan to the developing world. Implementation of the plans would triple Iran's output to...

The fourth coast: National parks within the fragile Great Lakes ecosystem face serious environmental threats. But there's still hope for this vital resource, which provides recreation and sustenance to millions.
Ryan Koepke has fished Lake Michigan for most of his life. He first dropped bait and hook into the Great Lake with his dad at the tender age of two. Today, he and his brother regularly take their young kids out fishing. "You get out there and...

Direct addresses, narrative authority, and gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills."
When Rebecca Harding Davis died in 1910, eulogies recounted how her most famous work, "Life in the Iron Mills," published in the Atlantic Monthly nearly fifty years earlier, defied nineteenth-century assumptions about women's writing. According to the New York Times, many readers assumed that "the author must be a man"...

Representing and self-mutilating the laboring male body: re-examining Rebecca Harding Davis's: Life in the Iron Mills.
From the opening of Life in the Iron Mills, Rebecca Harding Davis uses descriptions of corporeality to separate Hugh Wolfe, her working-class protagonist, from the "breath of crowded human beings" (11) and the mass of "drunken Irishmen" that pass beneath her "open window" (11). Wolfe is a "Welsh" (15)...

Resource recovery: The Philippine model; EDUCATORS SPEAK.
Byline: Leonarda N. Camacho CONTRARY to public perception, garbage is not waste. It consists of natural resources - like paper which comes from trees; plastics, from oil; glass bottles, from silica; tin cans, from iron ore. Natural resources such as trees, oil, silica and iron...

Risk communication and public response to industrial chemical contamination in Sydney, Nova Scotia: a case study. (International Perspectives).
Introduction Chemical contamination and toxic waste resulting from industrial processes figure prominently on a growing list of health hazards faced by communities in Canada. Although research with attention to such health hazards is on the rise, the understanding of individual, local, and community responses to such hazards...