Word: cladding
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...rave culture. The sweat suit became a B-boy uniform partly because disco gear did not lend itself to the gymnastics of break dancing. Another influence: music legends like Bob Marley, who adopted sweats as a uniform (and may have been drawing on the much iconized image of tracksuit-clad John Carlos and Tommie Smith giving black-power salutes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...
...Charged with the murder (but not with terrorism offenses) was Kamel Bourgass, a 27-year-old North African. Handcuffed, he was led into southeast London's high-security Belmarsh court on Friday in white-hooded police overalls. A slight figure, he was dwarfed by a phalanx of police officers clad in bulletproof vests. His alleged victim, Oake, was a practicing Baptist who had occasionally served as a protection officer to Prime Minister Tony Blair. The popular 40-year-old was honored across Britain as the first domestic casualty in the U.K.'s fight against Islamic terrorism. His murder...
...Part of the problem is due to the nature of the beast. Sturgeon are ancient creatures that have swum the world's rivers and seas for millions of years. Clad in bony plates, they are fierce-looking fish that can grow to enormous lengths?measuring up to six meters from snout to tail and weighing more than a ton. But they mature slowly: some don't begin reproducing until they are 15 to 25 years old. When a female sturgeon does start ovulating, she can be quite valuable, producing more than a million eggs, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...
With the recent onslaught of winter weather, the Square has once more regained its New England character. But one thing is noticeably absent this January: No longer do scantily clad mannequins mock us from the windows of Pacific Sunwear...
Part of the problem is due to the nature of the beast. Sturgeon are ancient creatures that have swum the world's rivers and seas for millions of years. Clad in bony plates, they are fierce-looking fish that can grow to enormous lengths--measuring up to 20 ft. from snout to tail and weighing more than 2,500 lbs. But they mature slowly: some don't begin reproducing until they are 15 to 25 years old. When a female sturgeon does start ovulating, she can be quite valuable, producing over a million eggs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...