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...much as the French love fashion, soccer took precedence last week in Paris. Even at the fall 2006 haute couture fashion shows, talk inevitably turned to Zinédine Zidane, or "Zizou," France's World Cup star. Some editors went so far as to sport les bleus--the team's cobalt blue jerseys--in his honor...
Kabila's ascension to the leadership of Zaire, a nation of 45 million people the size of Western Europe and rich in diamonds, gold, cobalt and copper, came with stunning speed. Mobutu's ouster was the culmination of a seven-month military campaign that began as an uprising among Tutsi tribesmen in southeastern Zaire after they were ordered expelled from the country. With backing from the anti-Mobutu governments of Uganda, Rwanda and Angola, Kabila took control of and expanded the rebel movement, sweeping east to west across the vast Central African nation almost without opposition until he was camped...
...rejected overtures to sell his company as well as frequent advice to take it public. "Why do we want to have these Wall Street guys coming around to complicate it?" he asks. Vultaggio says remaining independent lets him move drinks quickly to market. He sees an alluring piece of cobalt-blue glass on the beach, and a few months later, Arizona has a cobalt-blue bottle. Vultaggio has discussed a distribution deal with Coke that would put Arizona in Coke's vending machines. Without the vast distribution networks of Coke and Pepsi, Arizona still lags behind Nestea and Lipton...
...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...