Word: metallization
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...Several months later the clans deployed homemade bombs, fashioned from oxygen canisters and filled with gunpowder and metal shards. Li Lan's 23-year-old daughter was eight months pregnant and sitting at home when one of the bombs tore through her living room, blowing off her right leg and most of her face. The family dragged her coffin into the middle of the road to protest police inaction. Police forced Li Lan to bury her daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment...
...Liang and Li now lead a grassroots movement, a hobby not recommended for the timorous. Li's son, a guard at a grammar school, fled Lanshan after hooligans beat him with metal bars. (Li suspects they were sent by the police.) According to Li, one local cop has warned that if she continues her activism, "he'll tear out my eyes. I told him when I'm dead, my family will carry on." Even as she spoke in her home with TIME, police dropped by her gate to ensure she hadn't gone to Beijing to protest at last week...
That's lower than the up to 40% penalties Big Steel said it needed to survive a deluge of cheap overseas metal, but more than enough to provoke the outrage of Europeans, who fear that their manufacturers and workers have the most to lose as the world's second-largest net importer of steel, after China, starts turning ships away. (About 28%, by value, of steel imported by the U.S. in 2001 came from the E.U.; Japan, Korea and Russia were also hit by the tariffs.) Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who never met an American President he didn...
...started with surrogate skis called Crosskates. Unlike inline skates, which are mounted directly above four hard, rubbery wheels, each Crosskate ($700 a pair) is attached to a hollow, 2-ft.-long aluminum bar, with a rugged, air-filled tire on each end. The metal frame gives the skates extra stability, and the front wheels pivot to the side to make turning easier. You use ski poles to help push yourself along. "I wanted people to experience the sensation of skiing without having to drive three hours to get to the snow," says inventor Jamie Page, 30, a mechanical engineer...
...British accents are so thick, it can be like watching a Ken Loach movie). With dear, lumbering Dad (seemingly boggled by his own wealth); strong-willed wife Sharon (Ozzy's manager); independent-minded daughter Kelly (with dyed-pink hair, like a girl-power answer to Ozzy's black-clad metal-god persona); and chip-off-the-old-block Jack (a likable oddball with a thing for bayonets), the Osbournes are like the Soprano family without the guns. TV thrives on facile distinctions between "functional" and "dysfunctional," but this family is delightfully functional in its own bleeping...