Word: metallism
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...most persuasive condemnations of our veterans' healthcare system may be that a Southern California VA hospital is a suitable location for filming a Rob Zombie movie. The much tattooed 42-year-old director's last effort, the mordantly witty 2005 horror pic The Devil's Rejects, revealed the metal singer/director's knack for coaxing a certain grisly charm out of his homicidal antiheroes and evoking an unexpected creepiness out of the sun-bleached California desert. Now the horror auteur is taking a stab at Michael Myers, the masked psychopath from John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, which Zombie is retooling...
...Heaving a 16-lb. metal ball farther than anyone else in the world takes prodigious strength. It also takes grace, balance and technique. Parry O'Brien was a shot-put champion whose great innovation was a 180ş spin that built momentum for his toss. He broke the shot-put world record 17 times between 1953 and 1959 and in four Olympic Games took home two gold medals plus a silver. O'Brien, 75, had a fatal heart attack while competing in a Santa Clarita, Calif., swim meet...
...stood in line at the security check point, dutifully stripping myself of belt and shoes and responsibly removing my laptop from its case, I resigned myself to my fate. A hidden metal button on the hip of my jeans caused the security guards to charge me down with batons in hand, while simultaneously the miniscule tube of chapstick from the very bottom of my rather large backpack got confiscated for being a potential bomb. I decided that the day had already gone so wrong that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. The flight would be fine...
...agents' request, Markell pulled his records and quickly found his own copy of the receipt for the Glock 19. He also saw that Cho had bought a $10 box of 50 9-mm practice rounds, commonly know as full metal jacket rounds because they don't expand on contact like hollow-point rounds. These are sold for target shooting...
...with several pockets can hold a number of compact 15-round magazines that fit a Glock 19. Cho surely knew that in cold weather a mass murderer could carry an arsenal on his back and in his pockets, and there would be no way to detect him, short of metal detectors at every entrance to every classroom building and dorm...