Word: metallization
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Mark Wills was obsessed with beautiful bodies -- flesh or metal or his own. By daylight, Wills, 28, worshipped his massive 6-ft. 1-in., 270-lb. frame in the mirrors of the weight-lifting center he owned in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. By night, he muscled his way off dance floors and into the beds of attractive women whose names, he bragged, he rarely remembered. But Wills' true talents lay elsewhere. Once each week he would get his hands on hard bodies that never played hard-to-get -- curvaceous Camaros, sleek Cadillacs, majestic Monte Carlos -- gleaming beauties that he could...
After dismembering the cars, Wills and his cronies -- most of them fellow body builders -- would burn the identification plates and sell the scrap metal to a junkyard. The usable parts were then loaded into a rented 24-ft. Penske trailer and hauled to a salvage yard in West Hazleton, 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia. There, Wills' All-Brand Auto Parts received cash for the stolen goods. The FBI suspects, but cannot prove, that the salvage yard was placing orders to Wills to steal particular brands of cars...
...YORK -- Some of the top stars in music have indulged in a guilty rock pleasure. Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz and the speed-metal band Megadeth, among other unlikely devotees, have recorded cover versions of songs by the band KISS, perhaps the schlockiest combo in rock history, for a tribute album that is due to be released early next year...
...patients don't get to a dentist before the disease gets out of hand, the treatment used to save the teeth is not pleasant. Wielding sharp metal tools, periodontists scrape germ-laden plaque from around the teeth and under the gumline. If that doesn't work, the usual next step is oral surgery that carves away pieces of infected...
That evening, while his parents watched television, Doug sneaked into the garage and got his Dad's hacksaw. Carefully selecting a spot along the barrel, he began to cut. He was amazed at how easily the blade sliced through the metal. Smoothing the end with a metal file, he then cut the stock, reducing the gun by almost 2 ft. in length and transforming it into the weapon of choice among many teenage toughs: a pistol-grip, sawed-off shotgun, which he pronounces almost as one word. "Easy to hide and no need to aim. Just bam! and you clear...