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...Ural Mountains, driving over forest roads not shown on any map, following a trail of whispered rumors that a cache of gem- quality stones was up for grabs. A group of miners, fed up with laggard paychecks, had supposedly been holding back emeralds in hopes of finding a private buyer...
...manager nodded as if he knew this all along. "We could supply those items for perhaps $6.5 million a unit, including spares," he offered. My companion said he had $5 million in mind. But if the Russian-built weapons had the latest navigation and guidance systems, his Middle East buyer might be willing to pay more...
More sophisticated buyers cultivate contacts with a small community of international brokers, mostly Germans and Americans, who work out of Switzerland. These brokers have sanitized their operations so thoroughly that they never actually meet the seller. According to participants in the trade, couriers deliver the seller's metals and the buyer's cash to one of the Swiss banks specializing in the metals trade. There the metals are tested by an independent laboratory for atomic count and purity. If the metals are certified, the bankers hand them over to the buyer and deposit the cash in the seller's numbered...
...three-hour documentary called Hoop Dreams (due out in the fall), about two teenage basketball prospects from Chicago, the sport's glamour is a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel of family troubles, daunting schoolwork, perilous street life and their knowledge that stardom is a buyer's market. But they persevere because the dream is all they have...
...week. Within a few years, most of the 250,000 tons of paper Time Inc. uses annually to produce its magazines will be recycled stock. "In the past," says Refkin, "there simply was not enough recycled paper available to do this. But because we are such a large buyer, we were able to help create a significant supply by asking for it." A few months ago, Refkin helped dedicate a new recycling plant in Duluth, Minnesota, that will be turning out some of the pulp used in TIME. "The best part," he says, "is that this means all those tons...