Word: metallism
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...thought. But what if I stuck the Palm in its cradle and both Palm and PC got fritzed? I know that static electricity can be a potential death blow for computers; that's why you're supposed to ground yourself by touching the metal casing before installing a new graphics card, sound card or internal drive. I also know it would have to be a huge long-shot for an electric current to somehow pass from your body to the Palm's casing, down the cradle cable and into the computer. It's not like this will affect Palm...
Perry Farrell knows the value of a weird rock-'n'-roll name. In the late '80s he fronted Jane's Addiction, the artsy Los Angeles punk-metal outfit. He christened his next group, Porno for Pyros, while flipping through a fireworks catalog. And when he started an eclectic summer music festival complete with freaky sideshow acts, he dubbed it Lollapalooza after hearing the absurd word in a Three Stooges short. Even his stage name is a word twist. Born Perry Bernstein, he renamed himself "peripheral": Perry Farrell...
Marks also began consolidating suppliers and clients into industrial parks in China, Hungary and Mexico. Flextronics' park in Sarvar, western Hungary, includes a manufacturer of Styrofoam packaging, a maker of cardboard packaging, a forwarding company and a company specializing in sheet-metal stamping. The new Guadalajara location boasts circuit-board fabricators. And all are connected, on a secure computer network, with design and engineering labs around the world...
Gray puddles fill the ruts along a cinder-paved alley leading to the Lianjiao Metal Processing Factory. The scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived...
...general of the Dongguan Taiwanese Businessmen's Association, estimates that 30 to 40 Taiwanese die in the city each year, including accident victims. A year ago, two Taiwanese brothers managing a plastics plant were murdered by a pair of migrant workers they had fired. The brothers were bludgeoned with metal pipes. "I went there and saw," Lou says, finishing the sentence with a wordless grimace...