On Oct. 4, 1957, a primitive, 100-pound metal ball was sent hurtling into orbit around Earth, beeping back radio signals like taunts.
The bombs are believed to have consisted of explosives placed in 1.6-gallon (6-litre) pressure cookers, one with shards of metal and ball bearings, the other with nails.
In other words, a new metal "ball" is attached to the shoulder blade, or scapula, and a plastic cup is put at the upper end of the humerus bone.
Instead, they are packing TNT and plastic explosives - as well as metal and ball bearings - into their bombs to make them more powerful and more destructive, he says.
Photos obtained by CNN show the remains of a pressure cooker found at the scene, along with a shredded black backpack and what appear to be metal pellets or ball bearings.
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Photos obtained by CNN showed the remains of a pressure cooker found at the scene, along with a shredded black backpack and what appear to be metal pellets or ball bearings.
It crumbled, an incinerated ball of metal and fire, in the slowest of slow motions.
Phil Mickelson, playing in the same group and using a fairway metal, drove his ball into the rough not 10 yards away.
The Tsarnaev brothers are accused of carrying out the bombings using pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards.
Authorities have said they believe the bombs used were fashioned out of ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards.
The bombs are believed to have been fashioned out of ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards designed to maim.
At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Stephen Epstein, attending physician in the emergency department, said X-rays of patients showed metal balls that appeared to be ball bearings.
Ambulance workers raced to the scene to find the gruesome sight of pieces of flesh on the ground, interspersed with sharp pieces of metal, nuts, bolts and ball bearings which had been packed around the bombs.
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With enterprise value (stock plus debt minus cash) at just seven times operating income (in the sense of Ebitda), O-I is in line with another big packager, Crown Holdings (95% of it metal), and is cheaper than Ball Corp.
With enterprise value (stock plus debt minus cash) at just seven times operating income (in the sense of Ebitda), O-I is in line with another big packager, Crown Holdings (95% of it metal), and is cheaper than Ball Corp. (nyse: BLL - news - people ), whose enterprise multiple is nine.
But concern has been emerging for some time about certain types of metal-on-metal hips, in particular those where the ball head has a diameter of 36mm or more.
Hit the ball below the line a metal plate that makes a dispiriting sound when you do and you lose that point.
It was a buried metal tube aimed along the irrigation ditch and loaded with explosives, bullets, ball-bearings and spark plugs.
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We're talking home-built missiles that can haul an 8-pound bowling ball 5, 000 feet in the air or lob a streamlined metal "dart" to the edge of the atmosphere 50 miles high.
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