Word: metallization
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...month, is to say it looks like an iPod on growth hormones. It's what you'd get if you stretched the pocket-size music player until it was 17 in. wide and 2 in. deep, squished a supercomputer into the casing and mounted the whole thing on a metal stand. The resemblance is not coincidental. More people buy iPods than iMacs these days, and Apple admits that this third-generation iMac is its best shot at luring millions of iPod owners further into Mac world - and inching up its current 3% share of the Windows-dominated market. Will...
...Over seven decades of work at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that meteors do not come from far-flung stars, but the Earth's solar system. He was an inventor as well. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper or Whipple shield, intended to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...
Rees caught the tempo and spirit of today's more upbeat Jerusalem, but I was disturbed by his comments on the Ethiopian Jews who work as restaurant security guards and search customers' bags and swipe patrons with metal detectors. Rees noted that most of the guards are "drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community [because] few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death." This is an injustice to the Ethiopian-Jewish community...
...storm went on to hit China 's southeastern coast - from where officials had evacuated 1 million people - causing heavy damage but just two fatalities. Mean Streets BRAZIL A series of coordinated attacks in S?o Paulo left six homeless people dead and nine others hospitalized. All 15 were beaten with metal piping as they slept on downtown pavements. Police believe the attacks were carried out by a member of a hate group seeking to rid the streets of unwanted elements. The assaults evoked dark memories of a similar case in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 in which off-duty policemen shot...
...Iraq. Bukola A. Jejeloye Lagos, Nigeria Jerusalem's Security Guards "Daring to Live Again" caught the tempo and spirit of today's more upbeat Jerusalem [Aug. 2]. Correspondent Matt Rees commented on the Ethiopian Jews who work as restaurant security guards and search customers' bags and swipe patrons with metal detectors. Rees noted that most of the guards are "drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community [because] few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death." This is an injustice to the Ethiopian Jewish community. They are a very proud and modest group...