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The double-medal performance in three events made Lashinda Demus' silver in the 400-meter hurdles seem like a disappointment.
And investor interest in commodity-related stocks like Silver Wheaton (SLW) and Newmont Mining (NEM) has swelled.
And the Vatican showed off the urns into which the cardinals will place their ballots, the same silver and bronze flying-saucer-like urns used in the 2005 conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger pope.
The dentist's goal is that one day they may be able to replace mercury-based gold and silver fillings with material more like natural tooth enamel.
While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not-so-glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes.
And in some cases, the concept has evolved from the gift bag to the gift suite, where products are laid out for the taking--and, unsurprisingly, photographed as soon as they're snatched--care of gifting firms like the Silver Spoon and Backstage Creations.
Ms. BOEGERS: While we didn't make it all the way to the finish line that we have an opportunity to celebrate, it's almost like the silver medal at an Olympic - and if we're denied that and it's just a charade and a pretence, the Obama campaign is going to be in trouble because people are going to leave here angry.
Then The Wall Street Journal reported that prominent hedge-fund investors like George Soros were dumping silver, which triggered more selling.
Other smart money managers prefer the liquidity of exchange-traded funds like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Silver Trust.
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Another major bearish factor for the gold and silver markets in recent weeks has been rallying stock markets worldwide, which shows investor risk appetite is on the upswing at the expense of demand for safe-haven assets like gold and to a lesser degree silver.
The pack includes a touchscreen equipped Chocolate knockoff (very 2006, but still quite strapping), a branded version of the AMOI N810 Windows Mobile 6 Professional device, a black slider that looks like death incarnated, and an ultra-generic silver clamshell that looks straight out of the early part of this decade.
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Instead of sending in faded black and white pictures of long-lost friends, a growing number of silver surfers are turning to sites like Friends Reunited to track down old acquaintances.
The summer heat had broken and construction seemed to be under way everywhere, as old villages were being converted into enclaves of villas and cul-de-sacs with names like the Prestige and Sky Blue and Full Silver Garden.
As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.
The most popular gift is mithai (Indian sweets), and shops are filled with a spectacular array specially prepared for this festival, from thickly cut squares of barfi (a fudge-like sweet, often coated with a thin film of edible silver leaf) , to soft syrupy gulab jamuns (deep-fried balls of dough) and spongy rasgullas (sweetened cream cheese balls flavoured with rose water).
Now I suppose if you are looking for any kind of silver linings in that horrible, horrible thing - and there aren't any silver linings but if you were looking for one - it would be that the thing went down like that and not like that which is what would have happened had there been an impact at the bottom.
Maybe you have one of those Dads like the Dads in pharmaceutical commercials the silver, sinewy types who go mountain-climbing, fight sharks and skydive out of blimps.
Heroes like the seven service members who last week were awarded the Silver Star for valorous acts more awe-inspiring than anything Hollywood could have conjured.
In the seemingly infinite galaxy of philanthropy, the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala sparkled brightly on Friday night, not only honoring chess legend Garry Kasparov, brain-mapping scientist Dr. Cori Bargmann and entrepreneur Richard Branson, but with stratospherically smart award presenters like James Watson, best known for his co-discovery of DNA, election predictor Nate Silver and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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