Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nowhere in the world can you find such a quantity and variety of ancient art," says Ozgen Acar, a Turkish investigative journalist. In the "open-air museum" that is his homeland, he says, farmers go into hock to buy metal detectors, while Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs "sell better than Korans." One Turkish case, tied up in litigation since 1986, involves the country's claim on the Lydian Hoard, a famous collection of 250 gold and silver wares. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which bought the pieces, does not acknowledge that they came from Turkey...
...this week's BUSINESS story about life and hard times in a West Virginia coal community was especially unsettling. "The first time I entered a low-seam coal mine was one of the most claustrophobic experiences of my life," says Gup. "You lie on your back on a metal sled, and the distance between the floor and ceiling is never greater than 40 inches. You're in utter darkness -- except for the light on your hard hat. You eat your lunch on your back with your pail on your belly. Twenty-four hours after you get out, the insides...
...mightier than the sword -- and maybe even more enduring than the nuclear missile. Wisconsin-based Parker Pen is offering a line of pens composed partly of metal from American and Soviet missiles decommissioned in the wake of arms agreements between the two superpowers. Half the sales price of the pens will go to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a charity for victims of catastrophes around the world. Parker, whose pens have been used to sign the arms-control treaties, is offering a range of instruments from a humble ball-point for $30 to a top-of-the-line fountain...
...second big CUFOS project involves an investigation of an alleged UFO crash that occurred in Roswell, New Mexico, in July, 1947. Several people saw the alleged crash, which supposedly left behind a significant amount of physical debris--including an odd, tin-foil like metal that could not be cut, a "weird balsa wood-like substance with odd characters on it," and, Eberhart believes, alien crew members' bodies...
...social male teen has ended. Dale Lang, owner of Sassy, the irreverent and successful magazine for female teenagers, has driven across the gender gap with Dirt, a magazine for "L.A. hip-hoppers, guys from the New York club scene or boys in Alabama who are into heavy metal," in the words of one editor...