rusting

I recently went to see rusting pipes laid near Finsbury Park in London during Queen Victoria’s reign over 150 years ago being replaced with bright blue plastic ones.

There’s some debate across disciplines about what causes aging, with some believing it’s a natural cellular “rusting” phenomenon that occurs independently of disease and gradually wears down the body until death, said Michael Rose, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at the University of California, Irvine.

The few that remain stand as rusting witnesses to the rise and fall of a media market that needs journalistic watchdogs more than ever, at a time when presidential candidates vie for the Latino vote and illegal immigration is a hot topic yet again.

The rusting, symbolic vessel carries a twofold mission: staking the Philippines’ claim to the land and trying to prevent further Chinese incursion.

As obsolete, rusting cogs grind tonnes of sugarcane into pulp and juice, the workers tell me it is one of just two dozen working sugar mills in Cuba.