Word: metallism
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...officer was dispatched to the Carpenter Center where a party was reportedly banging on metal. The officer asked the person to close the door...
...When the truck stopped abruptly, the load shifted and one of the containers inside got caught by the metal trim on the base of the truck, so there was a small leak,” said Murphy, who led the team that responded to the chemical leak...
Operating like a NASCAR pit crew, Southwest's mechanics pride themselves on changing airplane tires faster than their counterparts at other airlines. And mechanics at Southwest don't use the standard $500 tool to remove the magnetic device that detects metal chips in engine oil, as other mechanics do; they simply and quickly use their hand to pop it out. "Those tools are a waste," says a mechanic...
...might consider wearing it. Or so suggest the curators of "The Adventures of Aluminium, Jewellery to Jets," at London's Design Museum through Jan. 19, which polishes up the familiar stuff. Today a symbol of our throwaway culture, aluminum was not so long ago a precious metal. When a French scientist first extracted tiny pieces of it in 1845, the earth's most abundant metal was as valuable as gold and used in jewelry and precious objects. But only 10 years later, a new chemical extraction process made aluminum more easily obtainable, and from then on its lightness and durability...
However impressive Neal Evans and Eric Krasno were, it was all held together by the funk, jazz and hip hop-driven beats of drummer Alan Evans. With a jazz-style grip on his sticks, he played with the intensity of a metal drummer, but with the touch of an old-school great. His energy was such that after the first song he shed his suit jacket because of the sweat he had worked up. In between songs, as he wiped his sticks down, he asked the crowd, “You all ready to get down...