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...Dave Arnold drops some soon-to-be-clarified juice from test tubes into his newest kitchen appliance: a centrifuge from the 1950s. Smoke immediately wafts from the cord, and a horrible whirring sound builds. "We should probably have safety goggles on, huh?" he asks before the grinding of metal-on-metal gets so loud, he feels compelled to unplug the machine. When the noise subsides, he looks at me and smiles. "Stuff you shouldn't get, you can get on eBay," he says...
...Officers were dispatched to 1 Meadows Lane to report of an individual reported stealing metal from a dumpster. Officers arrived and searched the area for the individual with negative results...
...detention, Khalil said he was kept in a small windowless room and beaten with batons, including two that had electrified wires sticking out the end. "I saw what looked like a metal bed frame," he says in the report. "It was the same size as a normal single bed, but it was placed on a platform with steps up to it. The bed had straps fitted at the top and bottom, presumably for tying people on to it. There was a wheel to change the angle of the bed to lift it up or down. There were spikes...
...they deployed to dig up the silver. As John Reader recounts in Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History, the flood of bullion proved more than the Old World could absorb. The unintended result: inflation that shredded Europe's social fabric, disrupted its monetary system and debased the precious metal itself. Blame it on the potato...
CASABLANCA, MOROCCO—Like all of America’s embassies abroad, the U.S. Consulate in Casablanca is a fortress-like compound surrounded by swarms of armed guards and a jumble of metal barriers. At certain points during the day, there are five different lines outside, each carefully sorted by a pair of bored bureaucrats...