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...JEWELRY PRODUCTION Artisans fashion the stones into jewelry. The value and quality of a polished stone is determined by the four Cs: carat, clarity, color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Rock to Ring | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...SORTING The rough diamonds are sorted and valued depending on shape, quality, color and size before being sold to cutting centers, primarily in Antwerp, Bombay, New York and Tel Aviv. The value of diamonds sold to the world's cutting centers each year is nearly $10 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Rock to Ring | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...screen that are turned into plasma by an electrical charge) can sometimes experience "burn-in," when an image, such as a station identifier, leaves an imprint on the screen. The images on LCD (liquid-crystal display) and plasma screens, while usually bright and clear, may not have the best color contrast. Green grass against a blue sky, Catapano says, may look better on a top-quality conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plasma's Bright Future | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...sorts of sins on analog TV, high def calls for thinner, better-blended foundations. Too much powder can make a star look mummy-like. Ken Diaz, makeup boss for the PBS series American Family, which is filmed in HDTV, waters down his bases. "It's a wash of color, like a stain, rather than a pigment," he says. Lori Madrigal, chief makeup artist for CBS's HD hit Joan of Arcadia, concedes that she no longer uses lip gloss on actresses. "Gloss looks like oil in high def," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For TV Stars, High Def Is Dicey | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...track, Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance, comes on, he's pushing the throttle with some funk four-four and singing about a gigolo and his old bag of a client. "Ugly! So ugly, the bitch beyond compare/Dropped a couple hundred thousand dollars on a silver whip just to match the color of her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ready for His New Evolution | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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