Now, the 22-year-old man has plastic eye sockets, metal rods in his legs and a rebuilt nose.

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He's deaf, and rather than relying on the high-pitched whine of the metal detectors he keeps a close eye on its digital display.

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Shannon was hit by a bullet that took out his eye and left shards of metal in his brain.

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Braka, one of London's leading art dealers, is a tall, proudly skinny man well known for his occasional Alice Cooper eye makeup and a general heavy-metal aesthetic that he nurtures.

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First came the much-maligned, binocular-like Solid Eye gaming attachment that will ship with Metal Gear Acid 2, then came the now-it's- vaporware-now-it's- real PSP2TV, well, PSP-to-TV adapter, and now we've spotted yet another TV adapter solution, the PSP on TV.

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Indeed, without the studio, the cat suits and hair-metal guitar solos of The Darkness may never have made it into the public eye, with the band's rock sound perfected at the complex.

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