Hundred-year-old pine trees are snapped in half, crumpled metal signs still lie in the roads and there are simply a ton of houses covered in bright blue plastic.
The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines --fitting safeguards, perhaps.
These solid state lights have a 50, 000-hour lifespan and use half the electricity of traditional metal halide street lights.
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At half the cost of traditional metal stamping, hydroforming may well be the secret to low-volume production on models that might appeal to a narrow group of buyers.
The number of Anglican churches in Devon targeted by metal thieves has fallen by about half in the past year.
The situation in Queensland is being closely watched by the global steel industry, because it exports half the coking coal needed to make the metal.
It comes as the group reported a 58% fall in half-year net profit, knocked by weaker metal prices.
Besides clean-up of materials, the company plans to remove unused utilities in the shaft, repair any damaged structures, install a water ring to control entry of water into the shaft and prevent ice from forming in winter, install a new power cable and a metal brattice between the eastern and western half of the shafts to provide a physical barrier, improving safety and functionality, company officials said.
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India has raised import duties on gold by a half to try to rein in demand for the precious metal.
Bare metal stents cut that rate at least in half, and both Cypher and Taxus lower it again to a mere 5% or so.
Fundamentals for the yellow metal look promising, at least in the first half of the year.
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As October ended, 19% of metal-workers were officially out of work, and half of those left were on short time.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources followed with its own study, which found that when lead bullets explode inside an animal, imperceptible particles of the metal can infect meat up to a foot and a half away from the bullet wound -- farther than previously thought.
The Monadnock is a good place to get a practical sense of how quickly these innovations were catching on: the original northern half of the building consists of traditional load-bearing walls that are 6ft thick at the bottom, while the southern half, constructed only two years later, uses the then-revolutionary metal frame for drastically thinner walls that go just as high.
In addition, Solyndra's panels cost about half as much to install, contends Gronet, since the tube racks sit on metal mounts and don't have to be bolted to rooftops.
The secret to the screens is in what's behind them: a thin strip of metal-coated plastic that's only 50 microns thick -- about half the width of a human hair -- and wraps around a spool.
Speculative investment in the metal has been growing steadily over the past year, yet its price has fallen by half.
During the first half of 2011 industrial steel buyers restocked their inventory, leading to an increase in the demand for the metal.
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About half of its 10, 000 North American locations are being rebuilt or refurbished to yield more wood, metal and artwork, and fewer plastic seats.
The AIRarm prototype is essentially a Packbot whose metal arm's been replaced with an inflatable version able to lift four times its own half-pound weight.
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).
He says half of the ash coming out of U.S. waste-to-energy plants is glass and metal, stuff that can be recycled.
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