• Nationally, an average of seven churches a day were falling victim to metal theft attacks in 2011.

    BBC: A church

  • He is now 15 years old and attends a New York City public high school where two armed police officers stand guard at the entrance and students need to go through a metal detector every day as they enter the building.

    FORBES: How To Talk To Children About What Happened In Newtown

  • To protect his family during the SARS outbreak, Dr. Lee moved out of his apartment and lived in self-imposed quarantine for months while treating patients, seeing his wife and young son only once a day through the grille of a metal door when they came to drop off his dinner.

    WSJ: Hong Kong Steps Up Bird-Flu Measures

  • Even on selfish grounds it makes sense, hastening the day when an honest Indian oligarch can at last put the pedal to metal in his supercar for more than three miles in a row.

    ECONOMIST: Infrastructure in India

  • One day in metal shop Packard caught his fingers in a milling machine while trying to add coolant oil from a handheld spout.

    FORBES: The sweet smell of oil

  • Crockett's grandson often comes over to her house, where "he stands in front of the television that's now a big glob of metal, " but his dad decided to take him to day care Friday, she said.

    CNN: Florida plane crash survivor: 'God is good'

  • Comex gold futures prices ended the U.S. day session slightly higher Thursday as the yellow metal and the entire market place tried to stabilize amid the ongoing European Union sovereign debt and financial crisis.

    FORBES: By Jim Wyckoff Of Kitco News

  • This tasty narrative premise is quickly abandoned for two and a half hours of disconnected drivel when the enemy Decepticons invade Chicago, and the Autobots, well-intentioned metal dunderheads who reside on Earth to protect humankind, save the day with help from Sam (LaBeouf).

    NEWYORKER: Fired

  • Home Secretary Theresa May told the Commons the matter was of "serious concern" not least because of the impact it had on the economy but also because of the "appalling incidents" of metal plaque thefts from war memorials in the run up to Remembrance Day.

    BBC: Labour calls for action on metal theft

  • Like the powerful nickel-metal-hydride battery in the Toyota Prius that he drives to work every day, the one with the license plate OVONIC.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Even though I grew up on metal, punk and hard rock and the majority of my listening to this day takes place within those genres, I still keep a heavy dose of pop music in rotation.

    FORBES: In Defense of Pop Music and "Guilty" Pleasures

  • Yet even with these losses, the airline industry has figured out how to move millions of spoiled, complaining Americans like me every day inside of tens of thousands of flying metal tubes without killing a single person in four of the past five years.

    FORBES: Here's Why I'm Grateful Microsoft Doesn't Build Airplanes

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