Word: metallism
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...first hundred people to visit the new Loker Commons on Opening Day, I received a free Seattle's Best Coffee mug stuffed with coupons and some gourmet chocolate-covered espresso beans. This unexpected gift made me happy, and I sat at one of the new brushed-metal tables in the coffee shop, beaming as I drank my mocha...
...minds of many programmers, who are always on the lookout for what they call a "new platform" on which to write new, hot-selling software. The virtual Java machine represents, as Sun co-founder Bill Joy puts it, "the lightest-weight platform we've ever had"--made not of metal, plastic and silicon but of a few thousand lines of code...
Chin, 39, said he is considering taking extra security precautions as a result of the robbery. He has moved valuable merchandise out of the window display at 49a Brattle Street during the night and is even considering the possibility of buying metal grates for the store's windows...
...relief to hear the authors conclude their scholarly preface with the statement, "Let the objects themselves speak to the intellect, to the senses, to the spirit." That is precisely what they do in this survey of down-home paintings, needlecraft, carvings and sculpture, like Clark Coe's wood-and-metal Man on a Hog. Most ambitious of all are the free-spirited constructions like James Hampton's altar assembled from garage-sale recyclings covered in silver and gold foil...
...archaeologists believe they have uncovered the more than 4,000-year-old, long-lost city of Urkesh. Buried beneath a town in northeastern Syria, Urkesh was reputed to have been a thriving religious center for the ancient Hurrians, a civilization cited briefly in the Bible. Unearthed were clay tablets, metal tools, drawings and seals of the Queen...