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...hand of geography is a very heavy hand,” University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geography professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared M. Diamond ‘58 told an overflow crowd in Science Center B last night. The former Winthrop House resident delivered a lecture entitled “Continental Differences in Human History” to an appreciative audience that filled several lecture halls and numbered at least 800, according to a Harvard University Police Department officer’s estimate. This talk was the first in a series of three that Diamond will deliver...
There is a widespread consensus in India that gems can improve one's health and destiny: family astrologers order pearls to cool tempers and emeralds to boost teenage boys' school grades. Princess Diya Kumari, 35, daughter of the maharajah of Jaipur, wears a large diamond pendant and earrings and a small evil-eye ring during her afternoon stroll at the palace. When Jaipur was built, beginning in 1727, her ancestors offered tax incentives to lure talented craftsmen, including jewelry workers, and their descendants continue to work all over the city...
...Mumbai Diamond Exchange, the somewhat glorified name for three office towers that have seen better days, is much more orderly than anything in Jaipur. On the ninth floor of the Panchratna tower, dealer Sunil Sethi of SK Exports flicks princess-cut and round-cut diamonds with tweezers without looking up. Every day he sees samples from about 35 brokers, who carry the stones in flat plastic boxes tucked into special cotton undervests...
...Dress Dolce & Gabbana embroidered lace dress, $5,950 (dolcegabbana.it); James Robinson diamond pendant and bracelet; Bing Bang gold necklace and bangles. Opposite page: Dior by John Galliano organza dress, $21,620 (800-929-DIOR); In God We Trust gold necklace
...watches sold in the U.S. last year 32 MILLION iPods sold in 2005 700,000 Residents of Britain who admit to shoplifting annually 45,827 Malls and shopping centers in the U.S. 33% Share of U.S. households that made online purchases during the 2005 holiday season 1 Number of diamond rings sold every minute on eBay's U.S. site