On the fifth hole Thursday, for example, Woods's low-boring iron off the tee found the left side of the fairway.

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Nazif Mujic re-enacted his family's real-life struggle to get vital medical treatment in the low-budget An Episode In the Life of an Iron Picker, which also picked up the runner-up Silver Bear award.

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The likelihood of Iron Man 3 coming close to matching the super team-up movie are low, since that would require the third Iron Man film making as much money domestically as Iron Man 2 took in worldwide.

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The low-slung structure, surrounded by a black iron fence, was once an aircraft parts factory.

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One reason, argues Ian Maxwell of Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, is that only the biggest firms can afford to get over the high barriers to entry in the high-return, low-risk niches of the mining business: iron ore, alumina, diamonds and industrial minerals.

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These areas are known as HNLC (high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll) zones and are thought to be caused by a scarcity of iron.

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And this means that basic Mediterranean-style home can be enhanced with faux iron gates or wall trellises at relatively low expense.

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I'd been diagnosed with low iron before, but the first surprised me, as I have always been a big leafy-green vegetable eater.

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Still, most of us can probably think of a colleague who could use a makeover: The intern who wears low-cut tops, the IT guy who lives in track pants, the boss who doesn't iron his shirts.

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