Workers stand outside stores, ringing a bell and collecting money in a red metal kettle from shoppers passing by.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In some cases,instead of a cast, a splint made of plastic or metal will be secured over the area to restrict movement.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

At last he did, he tied the boat to metal ring that was stuck in the rocks.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The heavy metal enters the body when children breathe the paint dust or fumes in the air.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

A book drop is the small metal door in the wall of the building where people can return books when the library is closed.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Metal detectors cannot be used in many cases because landmines can be made of non-metal materials.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my finger slid on a piece of metal and made a noise.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Bell experimented with devices that could find bullets and other metal in the body.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

They are stored in drawers of metal filing cabinets in a long hallway.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

First a gold miner put dirt in a metal pan and added water.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

This metal surface, placed in contact with the water, will heat the water.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

He stands above a heap of shattered concrete and twisted metal on a windswept hillside in Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

You need metal." FAO says it has delivered tools and seeds to 68,000 families in the earthquake zone so far.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

In fact,India's gold purchase is reminiscent of another year when the yellow metal dominated headlines in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

In the big cities, the traditional affinity to the precious metal is waning, as trends change.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

India's Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, says the country's comfortable foreign exchange reserves prompted the Reserve Bank or RBI to invest in the precious metal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Instead of going into a hole on the green, discs are thrown into a raised metal basket that looks a bit like a trash bin covered in chains.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

But in souvenir photos of those days, more than a few metal flasks, no doubt containing something stronger than Bubble-Up, can be seen on the floor beneath the tables.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now only about "There is change in some people traditionally expected platinum to be an expensive metal, people are looking at it in the same terms as gold values,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

As gold prices top $1,000 an ounce the highest price for the metal in the last 18 months traders say they expect demand to dip drastically this festival and wedding season.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"So as you can imagine, if you are say 50,55 or younger, the surgeons will be very hesitant to place these metal joints in your body because knowing that in 10 to 15 years, there's a chance these would fail."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11