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...punks, metallers and cholos but many are just ordinairy working-class teenagers and young men. They deride the emos for being posers who are overly sentimental and accuse them of robbing from other music genres. With roots in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, emo bands play a style of rock that borrows much from punk and indie rock. They focus on exploring their emotions (hence the name) with a particular dwelling on typical teenage depression...
...open elevator car for a 21/2-minute plunge down a dark, icy shaft. At the bottom, amid swirling condensation and suffocating dankness, they enter a large hall labeled as face number 5,206. The night before, an engineer used 2-meter lengths of dynamite to blast 150 tons of rock from the roof. Now two men use an earthmover to load the rock so it can be hauled to the surface, where it is crushed and mixed in a bath of chemicals to leach out the precious metal...
...crib it isn't. But for every ton of rock pried from the earth, two grams of gold will be produced. Last year the Dayingezhuang mine turned out 78,000 ounces of gold, worth more than $78 million at the current price of around $1,000 an ounce. There's more ore where that came from. The mine's operator, Hong Kong-listed Zhaojin Mining Industry Co., expects to get 80,000 ounces from Dayinggezhuang this year. It's a story that is playing out at thousands of other Chinese gold mines that, with metal prices soaring, are ramping...
...musician, poet and artist Patti Smith isn't ready to rest on her laurels. After her induction into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame last year, and the recent Sundance premiere of Patti Smith: Dream of Life, a documentary about her life and work, she's now thrown herself headlong into a major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Patti Smith: Land 250, which highlights her photographs and drawings from...
...welcome reminder of how far prosthetics technology has come. Vice president of prosthetics for Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics in Maryland, Carroll has become a go-to guy for disabled athletes who want to take artificial limbs to the extreme not only in competition but also in sports like ice-climbing, rock-climbing and skiing. He has created everything from prosthetic legs that function as crampons to feet that lock directly into ski bindings. "You have to learn not to say never with these guys," says Carroll. "If you do, they're going to go out and prove you wrong...