One astute blogger has spotted that the 7-Eleven chain in America has surreptitiously cut the size of its ludicrously large 44-ounce drinks container down to 40 ounces (still ludicrous, but anti-obesity campaigners must feel grateful for small things…).
Polymetal - lifted in recent days by talk of a possible merger with Polyus Gold - lost 22p to £10.88 as it warned there was a chance it could miss its production target of 1.2m troy ounces of gold in 2013 due to delays at a Russian plant.
El Salvador is an impoverished country, but its citizens live above riches: the country has an estimated 1.4m ounces of gold buried underground, as well as silver and copper.
An alcohol unit is the equivalent of a third of a pint of medium-strength beer, half a 175ml (six fluid ounces) glass of red wine with 12% alcohol by volume, or a 25ml shot of whisky, The findings add statistical backing to anecdotal evidence for a link between excessive work and alcohol abuse, the authors said.
The device weighs 10.9 ounces and, like many personal digital assistants (PDAs), runs Microsoft's Windows CE.
Amanda Gálvez, a food scientist at the National Autonomous University, reckons that the average Mexican gets 40% of his protein intake from corn, of which he eats between 250 and 400 grams (8-14 ounces) a day.
The latter tweaks set the present weight of the ball (between 5½ and 5¾ ounces), and the maximum width of the bat (4¼ inches).Cricket may accept changes to the laws only reluctantly but the way the professional game is played has altered in many ways over the 30-odd years that I have been a close observer.
If America is ever to take female political candidates seriously, this type of journalism has to stop.Marie DrennanSan Francisco...and drugsSIR – You estimate that three ounces of cannabis proposed as the legal limit for possession in Nevada would be enough for a "nice evening in" ("One puff at a time", September 28th).
(If these prices sound ridiculously cheap, remember that we are dealing with the wholesale market. By the time those pounds have been divided into ounces, and then eighths, prices are much higher).
And Harmony has won union acceptance of a shift system that will enable it to mine every day in the year except for 12 public holidays.But Gold Fields also gains from price rises, and it is less tied to South Africa: it dug 2.8m ounces there in 2003-04, but another 1.35m, at lower cost, elsewhere, and made a $156m operating profit.
And nine-tenths of Harmony's 3.3m ounces of gold last year was South African.
