Word: metallism
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...morning ceremony, security in the Yard was tight. Walk-through metal detectors were set up at most entrances and scores of police with handheld metal detectors randomly re-screened both graduates and friends and family...
...Johnston Gate, a lone Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy used a handheld metal detector to check hundreds of people seeking entrance to the Yard. Even elderly women in wheelchairs were not exempt from a once-over with his beeping wand...
...plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks in which devout Muslims can perform their ritual ablutions. Air-conditioning is still provided only by the breeze off the Caribbean...
...birth name, Jacoby Shaddix. That's a fine name for a personal-injury law firm, but it's not much of an upgrade from Coby Dick for a rock star. Changing hardly seems worth the trouble. But the new/old name, like much of lovehatetragedy, is evidence of how metal has evolved over the past decade. Cartoon bands like Motley Crue and Poison once sang about sex and cars and sex in cars; then Kurt Cobain came along and submerged those bands with emotional depth. But instead of being celebrated for his songwriting, Cobain was memorialized for his pain. Now metal...
...ashes/I always seem to fall down." On She Loves Me Not he decides that "I'm the jerk." Subtlety is not his forte, and numbness takes over after a few lovehatetragedy tracks. It's a shame, because Shaddix has the manic energy and caterwauling voice of a lightweight metal champ, and Papa Roach is a very tight band. The music rises and crunches in that relentless "Can we top this? Yes, we can!" kind of way that makes heavy metal so much fun. Now if only the lead singer would lighten up. --By Josh Tyrangiel