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...Computers and other appliances contain valuable materials: gold, platinum and other electrical conductors are used in microchips and motherboards; lead is in solder and computer monitors; copper can be mined from wires and internal circuitry. But in China, which according to ban receives nearly 90% of America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes...
Impressionist Still Life brings to life Edouard Manet’s claim that “a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers.” One example of still life as an outlet for personal expression is “Hollyhocks in a Copper Bowl” (1872), painted by Courbet when he was in prison. The flowers, a symbol of death in Dutch painting, emerge drooping and threatening from a black background, creating a horrible effect unexpected in still life...
Yasuo Hamanaka Sumitomo Bank?s chief copper trader racked up losses of $2.6 billion in unauthorized deals over 10 years. He pleaded guilty to forgery and fraud, and is serving eight years in a Japanese prison...
...images shift slightly and appear to rotate as the viewer’s perspective changes, giving them a sense of life. Moreover, daguerreotypes possess greater individuality than photographs. Where from a single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears—in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs, the singular uniqueness of daguerreotypes becomes wonderfully apparent...
...details: built in closets for Anne Brown’s hats, a soda-fountain in the children’s playroom and a sound-proof music room. In addition, the home had its own meteorological equipment and state-of-the-art Dymaxion bathrooms—fancy one-piece copper bathrooms...