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...have dropped dramatically over the past five years - by as much as 60% by some estimates - and pearls are suddenly as trendy as when Jackie Kennedy popularized them in the early 1960s. Not that these are your mother's pearls. The jewels now come in all shapes and sizes. Colors are equally diverse, ranging from the bright white of the Akoya variety to freshwater pastels to Tahitian black pearls. Unlike diamonds, pearls have no common grading system, and value is judged on seven factors: size, color, shape, luster, surface quality, nacre and how well they match. In the end, though...
...Berliners' familiarity with governmental interference in private life, a product of their experiences under the old East German regime. But it seems that the most important factor is a shared sense of urgency about safe sex: in the bottom-left corner of each poster, regardless of produce type, condom color, or slogan, is a box containing the words “Gib AIDS keine Chance”—don’t give AIDS a chance. The smaller print reminds the reader that every instance of unsafe sex is an invitation to premature death...
Looking at these houses and families with young children playing outside everyday, I hope this village of color never has even one house adorned in black. I don’t naively suppose this has not already happened, but living on this base 3,000 miles from home, I want to see it alive again. I want to see the asbestos-filled buildings torn down and replaced by more houses and building complexes. I want wireless Internet access from my room. Above all, I want the constant color and light that these soldiers clearly bring to their families...
...away. The interns have brought it to light. We have created a community for ourselves that is constantly alive and vibrant. But in the winter, when we are gone and that light has gone away, I hope the casualty count is down, the soldiers are home, and color and life have returned permanently to this ghost town I have chosen to call home for the summer...
...join a cargo flight with about 50 crates from Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Watching every inch of the way to Melbourne was Rosin-"kind of like a dog," he says. When his prizes were delivered at the NGV, Rosin allowed the crates to acclimatize for 24 hours before completing his color-coded condition reports. Only then could installation begin. "You go to an exhibition and see all the paintings on the wall," he says, "but you can't imagine the work behind all these things: six months of phone calls and faxes and e-mails and trying to be happy...