Word: copper
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...went into the basement and saw a 2000-gallon water drum that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...
...with us again; he had done the solar work here as well. By this point I had had about enough lecturing on solar power for one day. There was the same copper tank in the basement and the same talk about thermal efficiency, floor radiant and sweat equity...
...fact, many servicemen and -women do have a choice: between volunteering to leave in exchange for a "copper handshake" severance package and waiting to be sacked and getting less attractive benefits. A staff sergeant with 10 years service, for instance, can choose to leave with a $28,100 lump-sum payment or a $4,700 annual annuity over 20 years. But if the same sergeant does not volunteer, he or she can be separated with one-third less pay. "It's a terrible decision to have to make," says Staff Sergeant Stephen Underwood, a gulf-war veteran who has decided...
WHEN MY FAMILY made the pilgrimage north last summer, we stayed in the Chateau Frontenac, the colossal hotel Fantasy land of the Canadian town. It sits high atop a hill, majestic, with layer on layer of green copper spires rising toward the sky. It's world-renowned--any self-respecting tourbook will tell you that...
...course, some purists may feel that something isn't truly organic unless it looks like pond sludge. Never fear. The Body Shop also carries rough-hewn products like Henna Cream Shampoo, which looks like a jar of copper-colored vaseline mixed with mud, because it contains no artificial colors or color stabilizers. The "Men's Rhassoul Mud Soap" resembles a small cement brick. For women, there's "Wheatscrub Soap", made of wheatgerm and cinnamon, which is supposed to "exfoliate" your skin, and a milk bath that contains oats and avocado oil. Apparently the Body Shop doesn't know the inside...