Word: ishmael
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...PATRICK BEHRER "ISHMAEL'S MUSINGS...
...Some are very striking taken from air, showing the immense multitude that has congregated in their white garb – a reference to their attire on the Day of Judgment – circumambulating the sacred Ka’aba, the black cube, the House of Abraham and Ishmael. It all harks back to the foundation of Judaism, Christianity and Islam...
...What I want is for all Sierra Leoneans to think of Sierra Leone as their country, not the north or the south as theirs,” said Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in Sierra Leone’s 11-year-long civil war. “If we have schools in the south, let’s build some in the north. Together, we can maximize...
...years provided an influx of investment capital - Zhaojin Mining raised $282 million from its listing - and also introduced the mining industry to shareholder scrutiny for the first time. "There is a correlation between the huge rise in gold production in China and the listings of those companies," says Auslan Ishmael, general manager of the China International Mining Group, an industry association. "This definitely put pressure on those companies to get a good return." Zhaojin Mining, for example, has seen its revenue soar by more than 100% a year for the past four years...
...reason why diggers are excited about China's future is because of the large amount of gold that may still be in the ground. "Some of the world's biggest remaining deposits are in China, for sure," Ishmael says. Now miners are going all out to find it. Nationwide the commercial-exploration budgets for gold and other metals have climbed from $20 million in 2003 to more than $300 million last year, according to Metals Economics Group, a Canadian research firm. China's Geological Survey Bureau says that last year five new gold deposits with reserves estimated at 600 tons...