Word: sulphureous
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...mining stocks. As prospectors staked out some 8,000 claims in the Timmins area, penny stocks became dollar stocks on the Toronto Exchange, and paper fortunes piled up almost overnight. Though most of the glory and the proven reserves belong to the lode's Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with a long-shot name-Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd.-but it began moving quickly on faith, hope and rumor...
...diagram, left). All the water that anyone consumes in food or drink must go into the blood and be extracted by the kidneys before it can be voided as urine-contrary to the beer drinker's cliche "It goes right through you." Kidneys also work fast: the malodorous sulphur compound in asparagus is extracted and begins to be excreted in a couple of hours...
...Vulcano, one of the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily, is compounded of black sand beaches and a wild lava landscape that looks like a modern sculptor's nightmare. The sea around it is an unbelievable sapphire, lined with small white polished stones, through which bubble numerous hot sulphur springs, which are supposed to work wonders on an amazing range of problems from acne to sex. And against this black and blue landscape are some 25 dazzling white Saracen-style houses built by rich vacationers, plus a hotel called Les Sables Noirs. Built around a flower-filled patio, Les Sables...
...been prompted by half a dozen recent oil, gas and metal strikes, notably the spectacular copper, zinc and silver find by Texas Gulf Sulphur near Timmins. Ont. More than 1,000 prospectors have staked 8,000 claims, some as far as 65 miles from the strike site. Texas Gulf Sulphur will spend $20 million to develop its Timmins properties, and such Canadian firms as Noranda Mines, Hudson's Bay and Consolidated Mining together have raised their exploration budgets in the area by $10 million. International Nickel put 30 surveyors to work, some in helicopters, and even staked more than...
...What will die with me when I die, what pitiful or perishable form will the world lose?" Borges wonders, recalling childhood friends and memories. "The voice of Macedonio Fernández? The image of a roan horse on the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas? A bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk...