Word: cobalt
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...head and taken it." She fled with her husband and three children, taking along her now-orphaned infant niece. The refugees have found some sanctuary but little food, despite Katanga's innate wealth. Situated right in the center of Africa, the province sits atop giant deposits of copper, cobalt and a good portion of the world's coltan, a rare mineral used in mobile-phone circuitry. Katanga is hugely fertile - it's deep green from the air. "This country could feed all of East Africa and much of southern Africa," says Claude Jibidar, the World Food Program's deputy representative...
...news for Martha Stewart today as NBC canceled her version of The Apprentice ... The network released a statement today saying 'Don't let the French doors painted Dutch blue with cobalt trim hit you on the a__ on the way out.'" --JIMMY KIMMEL...
Brooks, who's producing the movie, is less restrained. "I had no idea," he says. "They're like the cobalt bomb! If you take two elements and you put them together, sometimes they generate something that is way beyond their individual strengths...
...sold on the shelves of chic department stores. But if you visit the Samsung Experience store in New York City--or, soon, if you open up a Samsung Electronics package or pamphlet--you may catch a whiff. The new eau de electronics, named Intimate Blue to evoke Samsung's cobalt blue logo, is part of a drive by the Korean giant to develop a sensory identity, including a new signature sound, a string of cheery notes. "It's all about subliminal experience," says Paul Kim, a marketing manager at Samsung Electronics America...
...jaunty lick or two of carmine reflection--that at first one does not mark the skill that went into it, the power of epigrammatic observation implicit in Homer's ability to convey the milky blue water over a Florida sand bottom in two washes of cerulean and cobalt. One knows how little time it took to see and how little to do; but one senses the years of self-critical practice behind it. No wonder Homer is the despair of every amateur. --By Robert Hughes