Word: metallism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...simply revisiting the "Gulf War Syndrome" controversy that played out in Britain and the U.S. over the past decade, and the alliance's military leadership believes there's no scientific link. Radiation levels from depleted uranium are 40 percent lower than those found in the natural form of the metal, which occurs commonly in the environment, NATO officials argue. U.S. officials point out that the Department of Defense has been monitoring 33 American soldiers whose bodies contain fragments of depleted-uranium shells as a result of "friendly fire" incidents during the Gulf War, and none of them have developed renal...
...time when the incoming administration of NATO's acknowledged leader, the United States, has signaled that it wants to get its own troops out of the Balkans as soon as possible. And the circumstantial link alone between Balkan service and leukemia may be enough to ensure that, like the metal itself, the controversy over depleted uranium will be around for a long time to come...
...unfair. The instructor's job is defying gravity. My job is telling stories. Her job involves putting all her weight and faith on two hunks of metal that are three millimeters wide. My job is to write down my thoughts. But here's the main difference between her job and my job: because everyone has thoughts and just about everyone can write, when I do my job well, people outside the field think, "Hey, I could do that! Anyone could do that!" But when the skating instructor does her job well, laymen skid away humbly, mouthing the words...
...their armor-piercing abilities. Since then, a number of veterans suffering unexplained symptoms have suggested there may be a link between their illnesses and the use of depleted-uranium ordnance. Depleted uranium is not radioactive, and speculation over its potential health effects focus on its toxicity as a heavy metal. It is precisely its weight - 1.7 times that of lead - that allows depleted-uranium shells to pass through all sorts of armored surfaces that might stop steel, brass or copper, and makes it an attractive tank-busting weapon. Depleted-uranium ordnance was originally used on A-10 tank-busting bombers...
...your Special Report on Innovation [INVENTORS & INVENTIONS, Dec. 4], the article "A New Factory for a New Age," about an advanced powder metallurgy press, contained some inaccuracies. Although the new metal powder compacting system developed by Mii Technologies that you focused on is a genuine breakthrough, it was wrong to characterize the compacting presses currently in use as "remarkably crude." They are light-years away from that description. Today's presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size...