Word: metallization
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Another reason to get the lead out: in a four-year study, young boys found to have high levels of the heavy metal in their bones were more likely than kids with lower lead levels to engage in antisocial activities. Among them: bullying, stealing and even setting fires...
Having attained the gigantic height of 5'6" by the age of thirteen, I was not exactly prime slow dance material. My smile (a mouthful of metal) and my hair (in the process of growing out) didn't add much charm to my shiny visage...
...these reasons, there is little chance that the U.S. can meet Congress's goal of destroying the entire weapons cache by 2004. Although the Army continues to explore alternatives to incineration--among them chemical neutralization; biological degradation; and the use of electricity, freezing or molten metal to convert the chemicals into inert waste--those technologies could take years, even decades, to develop on a large scale. And given the looming possibility of accidents that might befall the stockpiles, time is the one thing the Army doesn't have...
...through May 7 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, then travels to eight other American cities, there are two DeCaravas on the walls side by side and often in the same picture: the DeCarava who relishes the way light makes a sawtooth descent down a metal gate, and the DeCarava who mulls over the pleasures and predicaments of black life in America. To the question of what's personal and what's political, what's lyric and what's documentary, he offers back a teasing answer...
Notions about the banality of evil are severely tested by Hasselbach and his former comrades. A repulsively fascinating character named "Bendix" digs up World War II battlefields so that he can commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers...