Word: hillocks
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...sits on top of an estimated $800 million in gold but can't get his hands on any of it. The 42-year-old Australian engineer went to the tropical island of Sulawesi in Indonesia's east five years ago to open a gold mine on a palm-studded hillock outside the provincial capital, Manado. He has yet to overturn one shovel of ore. A half-built processing plant sits idly alongside a dirt track. Among the only signs of activity to be spotted are in the picturesque bay nearby, where fishermen paddle wooden canoes. The mine's operator, Perth...
Until recently, few outside the music business had heard of the Miami-born composer, for Taaffe Zwilich (rhymes with safe hillock) was a woman in a field that has historically been dominated by men. But after she won the Pulitzer for her Symphony No. 1 (also known as Three Movements for Orchestra), her pieces suddenly began popping up on programs everywhere. Today Zwilich is that rarity, a composer who makes her living entirely from commissions, performance fees and royalties, without having to rely on teaching or grants to ensure a modest but adequate income...
Desserts ($7), fortunately, are an unequivocal triumph. A frozen hillock of an espresso soufflé nestles squarely on a hazelnut dacquoise (meringue) base in a beautiful pairing of satiny sludge and airy crunch. Next we try a triptych of variations on an apple: “moist” honeyed apple cake (which it is eminently not—more like chewing a stiffened wholemeal loofah), spiced cider sorbet of unusually whirly consistency, and a baked whole apple with a scalding molten core of gravelly brown sugar-magma...
...little more than a path distinguishable from the rest of the moonscape by the occasional tire track. My Lhasa-born Tibetan driver has to stop twice to ask farmers the way. Finally we reach a rickety bridge over a fast-running, turquoise river at the base of the monastery hillock. More than one monk has been swallowed up by the treacherous waters here as he leaned out to wash his clothes. Crossing, and ascending the last curve, we surprise a group of novice monks in maroon robes pelting one another with snowballs. Embarrassed, they run off, leaving us alone...