He will either become prime minister, or be cast on to Canada's large scrap heap of failed conservative leaders.
Ms. Kay grew up in Chicago, the youngest of four daughters whose father worked for a large scrap metal operation, said Ira B. Zinman, a cousin of Ms. Kay's.
Ali Raza, an artist who has spent many years working the United States but who returned to live and work part-time in Pakistan in 2006, makes large collages using scraps of lushly illustrated advertisements and pages from art books and other publications that have been partly burned so that their incongruous imagery and texts peep out from the mostly blackened paper.
David Lo, the owner of one of the largest scrap-processing centers for copper and other nonferrous metals in southern China, said that it would not make financial sense to modernize by installing machines instead of relying on hand labor.
He grew up north of Boston, where his father owns one of the largest scrap-metal yards in New England, Solomon Metals.
Andreas Siekmann handles the same subject less subtly, presenting a large ball made of scraps of fiberglass cows, bears, bulls and whatnot.
Last month, the head of South Africa's largest scrap-metal company was arrested after investigators found 29 tons of telephone and electrical cable and copper scrap -- some of it from a hijacked Zambian truck -- in company containers being readied for export.
The habit of assembling his compositions, even large-scale ones, from scraps of themes jotted down randomly remained throughout his life.
This large rectangular piece, cobbled from scraps of lumber, resembles a bulky room divider or a three-dimensional rendition of one of Jonathan Lasker's paintings of tangles enclosed in outlines.
The dynamite blasting will stop later this summer, rendering obsolete the large dampening blanket made of threaded scraps of truck tires, which hovered ominously above the Thunderdome.
