He buys bones and bone castings everywhere he can find them online, at auctions, from private collectors.

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Based near Kuala Lumpur, the facility supplies castings to a number of industries, including mining and power.

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He was there to check out a company that had sounded good on paper and was bidding to supply large machined castings.

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At present, aluminium accounts for 9% of a typical vehicle's content mostly in the form of castings and forgings for engine blocks, transmission cases, wheels and suspension parts.

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Flurospar: used in construction, cement, glass, iron and steel castings.

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On the other side of the room, four giant shelves, 4 feet deep by 16 feet wide, hold crates of dinosaur-bone castings, antique medical supplies, early-1900 Edison voltage meters and IBM core-memory boards.

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The hieroglyphic qualities and broad brush strokes of two of his masterpieces, "Ancient Script Mandala" (1968) and "Frolicking Birds and Beasts in Yin Script" (1969), are clearly influenced by the more primitive scripts found in bronze castings.

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Once a girl is signed with a big agency (in New York, where the biggest are located, this would include IMG, Elite, Next, Women and DNA), she is sent on what is called "go-sees"--castings for photographers, editorials and runway shows.

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The rest of the week is spent, sitting in on castings, location recces, seeing the strange world of special effects and witnessing the frenzied world of the production team - especially the assistant directors - scheduling, booking, rescheduling and rebooking for the production.

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