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March 1, 2014

A New Kind of Co-Worker

Automation and robots creep into service centers but won’t yet replace people.

When executives at the Earle M. Jorgensen Company decided their Schaumburg, Ill., plant needed a major upgrade, replacing people with machines was high on the agenda. Manually stocking and retrieving steel products for the company’s […] Read More

March 1, 2014

The Second Coming of the Panama Canal

As the expanding canal delivers a big bang for metals and infrastructure, its competitors are stepping up their game.

Mobs of bulldozers, excavators and strategically planted explosives have been blasting away at the Isthmus of Panama since 2007, carving the new Panama Canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific.By the end of 2015, big […] Read More

March 1, 2014

The Value of Liberal Arts

Brian Casey, president of DePauw University, on fixing education and why universities may not be so pricey

Historic brick buildings and tree-lined walkways form the campus of DePauw University, a 2,300-student liberal arts college located about an hour west of Indianapolis, in Greencastle, Ind. At its helm since 2008, President Brian W. […] Read More

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