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...predicament sinks in as Zayneb looks at the empty bunk across the room, until recently occupied by a friend of hers who has been transferred to another jail to wait for her own execution. "We spent a long time together here," Zayneb says, tears welling up in her copper-colored eyes. "They took her two days ago." She sees little hope for herself. "I am convicted of three crimes. If one is waived, what about the other two? For sure I will be hanged...
Fitted with copper flashings and decorative turrets, the house has an imposing façade that seems strangely aristocratic, even if its inhabitants are strikingly not. But it is an aristocratic bearing with no patina, copper without verdigris...
...Salaverria, who is in charge of 48 other IHOP stores through Mr. Stax Inc. “It’s going to be the new look for the IHOP,” he said. Mr. Stax Inc. changed the lighting, switched the colors of the coffee pots to copper and black, and also upgraded the seating to gray benches that will seat up to 96 customers in total, according to the store’s general manager, Hugo Buenavenura. The Square location will also be the first IHOP in the country to offer a low-carb menu, called...
...bright blue motorbike and waits as a fruit seller packs up three large bundles of apples and pears. "I'll take this down to the river tonight, and the North Koreans will be there to trade as usual," he says. He says he swaps the fruit for sheets of copper, most probably stolen, usually one piece of fruit at a time because his buyers can't afford more. "These are the people who are allowed to live near the border. They have to pass loyalty tests," he says, shaking his head. "And still they are smuggling and crossing into China...
...additional $90 million in bills or other coins. Furthermore, we are rapidly approaching the point where melting a penny will produce more wealth than the coin itself. Zinc prices are three times higher than they were in 2003, meaning that the metals alone (97.5 percent zinc, 2.5 percent copper) needed to manufacture one penny cost 0.8 cents and rising. Oh yes, there is also the minor trifle that huge demand for these metals encourages the environmentally destructive mining process needed to extract them. Add one more category of people whom the penny hurts: those who’ve ever stood...