Word: metallism
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...only sign that Spaniards take the idea of sexual equality further than most. Two days later, crosswalk signals in Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid, suddenly donned skirts. In an effort to promote "equality in traffic safety," the town has begun installing lights that flash up alternate male and female figures; metal signs are also being amended. "[Old] traffic signals leave half the population invisible," says local police chief José Francisco Cano. The inspiration for change came from the city of Lugo, which marked International Women's Day 2006 by taping transparencies of female figures over the standard striding males...
...mine, or sometimes a bit of pain with certain activities (for me, it's swimming the breastroke). For generations, orthopedists have treated clavicle fractures with little more than a cloth support like a sling. The vast majority healed just fine. There is an operation we can do, putting a metal plate on the bone with screws, but it's not usually necessary...
...Police asked for a search warrant after a hiker in a nearby park not far from the Grant home found a plastic bag with rubber gloves, blood stains and metal shavings and brought it to the sheriff's department, says Hackel. Grant's husband Stephen had appeared frequently on local television after his wife's disappearance pleading for her return. But after police discovered the his wife's remains hidden in the garage, Grant fled to northern Michigan, where he was later found wandering shoeless in a snowed-in wooded area. As he was treated for frostbite, Grant admitted...
...Jaipur, India, where many of the world's colored gems are cut and polished. After merrily emptying canisters of emeralds, a local dealer there, Ashok Chordia, abruptly signaled his assistants to close the wooden shutters overlooking his competitors' offices. In the dark, he flipped the lids of two metal boxes filled with nuggets he identified as tanzanite. "Very, very rare," he said mysteriously. "More precious than diamonds...
...emptiness is also starting to dissipate. The museum's permanent collection, 250 works and growing, includes such delights as Wim Delvoye's interior of a gothic chapel, made of metal and punctuated by stained-glass windows depicting body parts, and Tobias Putrih and Sancho Silva's plywood shapes that can be assembled by museumgoers into furniture of their own design. Mudam has purchased a few Majerus paintings, though nearly all those on display have been lent by other museums. The artist remains a favorite of curators worldwide, from London's Tate Modern to Mexico City's Jumex Collection...