Word: metallism
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...PREPARATION Magnets and grinders remove metal and other inorganic waste mixed in with the food scraps...
Thanks to Asia's construction boom, the price of copper has risen from less than $1 per pound (0.45 kg) in 2003 to more than $4 per pound in April, and burglars are lifting the metal wherever they can find it. The copper in plumbing, air conditioners, utility wire, rain gutters, sprinklers and bronze sculptures like Dan (bronze is a copper alloy) is easy to sell and tough to trace, police say, making it a popular cash source for meth addicts...
...owners should protect copper from burglars the same way they would a stereo, says Sidoti--install fences, motion-detector lights and security cameras. Meanwhile, lawmakers looking to crack down on copper thieves are starting at the scrap yard. Thirty-five states have pending or signed legislation requiring people selling metal to show ID. If someone comes in with suspicious goods, scrap dealers need to ask questions like, "Why would you have 20 manhole covers anyway?" says Bruce Savage of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. When Dan the miner arrived at an L.A. scrap yard, the yard's owner called...
...house the bulldozers are going to come for," says Nese Ozan, a volunteer with the Sulukule Platform, a coalition of architects, activists and social workers against the demolition. Between every three or four of the squat, derelict houses, one has been reduced to a pile of debris and twisted metal. A red X marks those that are next in line for the demolition teams...
...medical center's 140-acre (57 hectare) campus east of downtown Cleveland, and you'll find a computer terminal on a small rolling cart that physicians and nurses use to document every step of patient care in an electronic chart. Instead of scribbling notes by hand on a metal-clad clipboard, doctors and nurses use the fill-in forms on the monitor to type in each patient's symptoms and vital signs, progress and prognosis, and medications prescribed and taken...