Word: mineralization
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...frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s, on the ladder to success. Christened Thelma Catherine Ryan, she was dubbed Pat by her Irish-American father, a miner, to mark her arrival on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. Eventually she made the nickname legal, but somehow she was always more a Thelma than a Patricia, the kind of girl that in those days was called spunky. Life was marginal -- an ice cream cone was a special treat. When...
Undaunted, the company recently opened Nike Sports Management, a division that offers athletes "total management contracts," including endorsements, career guidance and marketing advice. The first three to sign: basketball stars Alonzo Mourning and Harold Miner and former Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirer. Under the deal, Nike represents Mourning, for example, in nearly every aspect of his life, right down to finding him a townhouse (a Nike representative had the shower heads and counters raised for the 6-ft. 10-in. player), choosing what soda he drinks and telling him where to buy his stereo equipment...
VitaminsFunction Where Found Vitamin A maintenance of normal vision and butter, whole milk, egg yolks mucous membranes Vitamin D regulates calcium intake and pro- liver, butter, whole milk motes bone mineralization Vitamin E maintains cell membranes and pro- nuts, seeds, whole grains motes healthy skin Vitamin K needed by liver for formation of cereals, dairy products, meats blook-clotting factors Vitamin C helps body fight against colds, may citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry...
Working from photographs -- whether specially taken for the painting or clipped from the press -- produced some of Sickert's most engrossing images. Among them are his 1929 portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole and The Miner, circa 1935: a man just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby...
...mountain climber, which is why Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...