State treasurer of Missouri Sarah Steelman is doing just that from Missouri's pension fund.

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Ms. STEELMAN: Liz, we--I--I'm an institutional investor as the state treasurer and we made that choice.

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Sarah Steelman, Frank Gaffney, and William Reinsch thank you so much for discussing this.

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Amy Steelman and Lou Angeli joined CNN.com Newsroom via telephone from the disaster site in New York.

CNN: Steelman and Angeli: Search and rescue at ground zero

The area in and around the rubble is "a city unto itself" for emergency workers, Steelman says.

CNN: workers

With each passing day, a pungent smell -- "the smell of death, " Steelman says -- gets stronger.

CNN: workers

Ms. STEELMAN: Well, Liz, contrary to what your guest said, the State Department has sanctioned these countries.

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Ms. SARAH STEELMAN (Missouri State Treasurer): Well, Liz, we've taken a number of steps here in Missouri.

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But the tunnel he and Steelman use one day may not be there the next time the two venture down.

CNN: workers

Ms. STEELMAN: And that's where we're drawing the line here in Missouri.

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Ms. STEELMAN: So what we are doing is we asked for it, Wall Street gave it to us and we--the choice was there.

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Las Vegas illustrates just how varied casino design can be - pyramids, medieval castles, circuses - pretty much "anything goes", says Paul Steelman.

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Like other rescue workers whose job it is to venture underground, Angeli and Steelman spray orange paint to mark the places they have searched.

CNN: workers

This 49-year-old son of a steelman from Rajasthan, India buys troubled mills all over the world and tucks them into his Ispat International N.

FORBES: Carnegie would be jealous

Importantly, Ms. Steelman's experience with MIT makes it clear that one need not sacrifice return on investment in order to do the right thing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shareholder democracy goes to war

Carole Mansfield and Monica Steelman, Nicole's aunt, described Nicole as caring and outgoing, saying she'd sometime travel without telling her family where she was heading.

CNN: American's family: She went to Syria to help

Angeli and Steelman are both firefighters in a suburban Philadelphia department.

CNN: workers

Ms. STEELMAN: There's a shareholder risk to holding these stocks, and as state treasurer, I believe I had a fiduciary responsibility to protect these pension funds.

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Michael Steelman of Oklahoma City, past president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, had a patient so determined to have the surgery that she gained 11 kilos.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Ms. STEELMAN: I have talked our firefighters and police officers.

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The Journal's op.ed. pages feature an extraordinary essay by Sarah Steelman, the State Treasurer of Missouri, which calls national and international attention to the newest instrument for defeating state-sponsors of terrorism: Terror-free investing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shareholder democracy goes to war

The second article, which appeared on the front page of the paper's "Money and Investing" section, details Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman's spearheading of terror-free investing initiatives in her own state and around the country.

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"It is buried, " says Steelman, emphasizing every word.

CNN: workers

Though it has been seven days since anyone was pulled alive from the rubble, Angeli, Steelman and the other underground rescue workers are saying there are enough open spaces, with food and water, for people to survive.

CNN: workers

Under Treasurer Steelman's leadership, the fund's board voted last September to adopt an anti-terrorism "screen" for its portfolio and subsequently issued a Request for Proposals for a "large cap" international fund that would provide such a screen.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America's new recruits

The worry on every steelman's mind is that as the growth in demand for steel slows from its recent hectic rates, the huge increase in Chinese production capacity will be diverted to turning out steel for export.

ECONOMIST: Steel industry

"It's not a safe feeling, " says Steelman.

CNN: workers

Treasurer Steelman, I'll begin with you.

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Sturgeon Lake at the north end of the island has a sandy beach for swimming and it joins with the waterways of Steelman and Mud Lakes, making it an ideal spot for more experienced kayakers who are looking for a challenge.

BBC: Portland's urban adventures

Mr Steelman should know.

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