Word: coppers
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...smeared with yellow and red pigment. If the color was consciously applied, the stone is one of the earliest indications of artistic expression ever found. Sandstone lions from the mid-1st century B.C. symbolize the Kushite state, and a gilded representation of a Kushite King is the largest copper-alloy statue yet found in Sudan. The Nubian settlement of Kerma was home to the earliest major urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa and produced, says curator Derek A. Welsby, "superb pottery, among the best ever made." Beakers dating from around 1750 B.C. have a distinctly contemporary look. A 19th century...
...years, routing high-quality video over phone lines was the impossible dream: telecom operators could not feed the copper wires that run into offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, pronounced dee slam). This refrigerator-sized box deftly flips video data from the speedy fiber-optic networks that form the backbone of the phone system to the "final mile" of copper wires. DSLAMs have been around since 1997, but until two years...
...terrorist bombings, kidnappings and endemic corruption that plague the Philippines keep foreign investors at bay, but so do restrictive laws. For example, the country has some of the richest deposits of gold, copper and other minerals in the world?natural resources that could be developed using foreign capital. But the Philippine mining industry is stunted by a law enshrined in the constitution that limits foreign investment in mining projects to only 40%. As a result, the country exports only about $630 million of minerals a year, even though the government sees a potential of $5 billion. In January, the Supreme...
Tsarapkin accepted the ibis with the thanks of the students of University of Moscow. Still, the copper bird made for an odd—and awkward—gift...
Updike’s staff retaliated by kidnapping The Crimson’s president and managing editor and demanding back the copper bird as ransom. Eventually he released the newspaper leaders, who, instead of returning the ibis, presented it to the USSR’s deputy representative to the United Nations as a peace offering...