1.   The choking odor of rotten human flesh is in the air, but the workers being lowered into the well shaft are used to it.

2.   As the rescuer came close to perforating the well shaft, he worked gingerly with his hands to scrape away dirt and avoid causing a cave-in.

3.   In their anger, many demanded punishment for whoever left the weed-strewn well shaft uncovered.

4.   The struggle that gripped Argentina began Thursday when Cristian, out for a walk with his mother, tumbled down the well shaft which was covered by weeds.

5.   To boost production, Phillips plans to direct horizontal wells out from vertical well shafts to draw oil from a long horizon of rocks.

6.   The bodies of Father Tomislav Matanovic and his parents were found last October in a well shaft near Prijedor.