Walking to the beach, blobs of rust-colored oil glisten from the Gulf spill.

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The clan split into two teams: Michael was captain of one, his sister Rory the other, both wearing matching rust-colored ski suits.

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And he was a big dog, too, a rust-colored Golden named Murphy.

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The IBM team's quantum computer was a straw-thin vial filled with a rust-colored liquid packed with millions of copies of a single organic molecule.

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He was wearing his yellow shirt, along with a rust-colored jacket, a striped tie of rich burgundy silk, and gray woollen slacks: his best clothes.

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They waddle down to the water to wash off the rust-colored guano that stains their pelts and produces a pungent odor that within days becomes expected with each landing.

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Since NASA's Curiosity rover made its way to Mars, it's been sending back a wealth of data from our rust-colored planetary neighbor: landscape photos, radiation readings and even evidence of liquid water.

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