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Despite their high prices, diamonds turn out to be one of the easiest jewels to buy on the Web because their quality is precisely defined by technical specifications (the "four Cs": color, cut, clarity and carat weight). High-end shops like bluenile.com diamonds.com ashford.com and mondera.com have detailed buying guides to help make your choices clearer. Blue Nile even has a build-to-order program that lets shoppers choose from 16,000 diamonds and 70 settings. Its online tools let you see, for example, exactly how a pear-shaped diamond will look in a classic solitaire setting...
...debut in Ban’s work in 1986 when he designed an exhibition in Finland. Unable to use wood, Ban accidentally came across a paper tube in his studio, a leftover from a previous project. Immediately attracted to the paper tubes because of their similarity to wood in color, he was converted when he realized their sturdiness, inexpensiveness and availability in various lengths, thicknesses and diameters...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., use a whimsical theatricality for large-scale events. Hardware such as metal Christmas balls and other objects found around the home or garage often appear in their designs. The two also like to bunch similar flowers tightly together and craft them into geometric shapes. Their graphic color-blocked creations almost managed to turn the carnation into a glamorous flower again. "If you're creating flowers for a modern space, the purely romantic won't make a dent," says Stark. Instead these flowers insist on making an impression...
...that the playing field outside the college walls is not even. I believe this is the case in most places. Admitting the best students, after all, is not just a matter of looking at the 1600 highest SAT scores. If the campus seems to be getting a little more colorful, maybe it is because the students of color really deserve to be there, and were not there before because the opportunity was closed to them...
...have a race-blind admissions policy, but the fact is that we do not live in a race-blind society, for better or for worse. So, to implement such a policy today, especially in educational institutions that are the only doorway to a better life for many people of color, is ridiculous. To get rid of affirmative action altogether would be treating the symptom and not the disease. Instead of just calling for minority leaders to cry out against affirmative action and discrimination, whites need to look at their role in solving the problem as well; and everyone needs...