Word: steeled
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...ambitious, deeply serious panorama of life in Germany and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. With an empathy and insight that border on the psychic, Vollmann inhabits the lives of spies and generals, traitors and switchboard operators and artists (including the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich), all caught in the steel machines of war and fascism...
...good news, since e-waste, of which plastic is a significant part, is accumulating rapidly--choking landfills and creating toxic plumes when incinerated. Some 100 billion pounds of plastic are used in the U.S. annually, yet only 2% to 4% of complex plastics are recycled, compared with 95% for steel and aluminum. That's because it's difficult to identify and sort engineered plastic by type and grade. At its 50,000-sq.-ft. Richmond plant, MBA figured out how to do it more affordably and efficiently and on a mass scale. In November, MBA opened the world's largest...
SANTIAGO Baume & Mercier's Riviera ($2,895), with a rubber strap, is the new watch of choice for Chilean guys who traditionally prefer conservative steel bands...
...LASER CUT Furniture or sculpture? The answer was both for the vanguard brother-sister team of Thien and My Ta Trung at Canadian design studio Periphere when they created the all-steel, rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated...
...Canon has added two models to its Digital IXUS range: 750 and 55. The former maintains a ?perpetual curve? design and comes in silver gray or satin beige. The 55 has a starburst radiating from the lens ring and is finished in silver-white palladium plating on stainless steel...