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...gold is not alone. A number of commodities are up. The price of silver, which has many more industrial uses than gold, rose 40% this year vs. just 15% for gold. Copper prices have nearly doubled. Indeed, the broad rise in commodity prices that are occurring now is usually an indication of a resurgence in the economy, not trouble ahead...
...lean-to garage in Ravenscourt Park, an unassuming residential suburb in London's west, seems an unlikely setting for a copper still, but it's perfect for the artisanal barley vodka and dry gin being produced by two men whose names make them sound like the leads in a Merchant Ivory film - Stamford Galsworthy and Fairfax Hall...
...years and volumes of red tape later, Sipsmith was launched this past June. The centerpiece of the operations is the elegant, gleaming copper still, nicknamed Prudence by the founders. Custom-made by Christian Carl, a small family-run distillery maker in Bavaria, the still is the first in London for 189 years and was assembled on-site in the garage, which also doubles as a tasting and sales room...
...into other migrations settling the Indian subcontinent? Although Harappan cities were vast - Mohenjo-daro could have been populated by as many as 50,000 people, a staggering figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial dancing girl, for example, and a treasure trove of delicately carved seals, most no larger than a postage stamp. "They are a window into how these people were thinking," says Vahia. "And they can tell us, in a sense...
...glorious artifacts are depictions of bodhisattvas - those who deliberately postpone their passage to nirvana, Buddhists believe, in order to help others along the eightfold path. In the 14th century, metalworkers from Nepal's Kathmandu Valley crafted the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, a manifestation of the Buddhist lord of compassion, in gilded copper and precious-stone inlay. An androgynous-looking deity with wide hips and sensuous form (in Chinese tradition, Avalokiteshvara or Guan Yin is female, in others male), Avalokiteshvara's serene face projects the harmony to which all Buddhists aspire...