Word: botswana
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...Although India dominates the polishing business, it produces almost none of the world's diamonds. Most rough stones are mined in Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Russia, and then find their way to Antwerp, where ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews form the nerve center of the international diamond trade. With contacts from Tel Aviv to New York City, Hasidic businessmen have controlled the polishing and selling of diamonds for generations?until, that is, the Indians began butting...
...Frazer accompanied the President to South Africa as part of a tour of the continent. They visited Senegal, Nigeria, Botswana and Uganda—countries Frazer said exemplify a “new compact of development, which focuses on ruling justly, investing in people and promoting economic freedom,” according to a column on the White House website published before the trip...
...grant, part of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, will go to the SPH AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative for humanitarian efforts in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania...
...three team members will continue to work in the countries where they have been working: Kanki in Nigeria, Marlink in Botswana and Fawzi in Tanzania. With the first-year funds of $17 million, they hope to treat 8,000, 4,000 and 3,000 people respectively...
...talked about for the supple and intricate design proposals she exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and in a one-woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes. "We had to come to grips with...