Word: tinning
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Early on the morning of Dec. 27, 1985, Dian Fossey, 53, was found dead in the bedroom of her two-room corrugated-tin cabin. Her face had been slashed in two by the blows of a machete. Her shocked acquaintances and colleagues suspected she had been murdered by the Rwandan poachers against whom she had waged war for more than a decade. She had burned their huts, cut their trap lines and paid government guards to bring suspected poachers to her for interrogation. Some of her acquaintances believed the poachers had long ago begun to retaliate by slaughtering her favorite...
...much more. The ancient ship, whose origin Bass has not disclosed, was crammed with bronze, tin, glass, gold, quartz, weapons and dozens of amphoras (pottery jugs) containing goods ranging from frankincense to fruit seeds. "It was like a floating supermarket," says Yasar Yildiz, the deputy director of Turkey's Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, which is giving vital support to the INA expedition. "This wreck is more than we could hope for," says Archaeologist Cemal Pulak, Bass's assistant. "It is giving us all % kinds of new information about people's lives in this area in 1400 B.C., what goods...
...outlook is quite different for most of the Asian nations that are dependent on commodity exports, for which prices are deeply depressed. In both Indonesia, a major oil exporter, and Malaysia, a supplier of rubber and tin, virtually no growth is expected through 1987. Says Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center in Canberra: "There are going to be considerable stresses on the commodity-exporting part of the Western Pacific economy over the next 18 months or so." He noted that Australia had been severely hurt by low prices for agricultural exports. But after expanding...
...Tin Drum...
...annually enjoy palm-lined beaches and seaside restaurants, were hard put last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...