The only place where rust doth not corrupt, according to certain advice reported in the Gospel of Matthew (6:20), is in heaven, so you should lay up your treasures not here but there. Here, your treasures will surely rust (if they're iron) or otherwise corrode - unless, that is, they're made of rare metals such as tantalum, niobium, iridium or osmium.
Rust is less dramatic than hurricanes and blizzards - yet it's costlier than all other natural disasters combined, says Jonathan Waldman, author of "Rust: The Longest War" (Simon & Schuster, 304 pp., $26.95). And the peril, as they say, never sleeps.
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