Word: diamonde
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...Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but not if that girl happens to have had both her hands chopped off by Sierra Leone rebels who're financed by the little gems. You'd think this was information that De Beers, the 500-pound gorilla of the diamond industry, would want to keep as far as possible from the minds of young lovers shopping for an adornment to symbolize their commitment. And you'd be wrong. De Beer's, in fact, wants every diamond shopper to know that the industry has sustained years of violence that has claimed tens...
...Beers is trying to inoculate itself by becoming the "dolphin-friendly tuna" of the diamond industry, which of course raises questions about the origins of non-De Beers diamonds. And that's a sound business decision, in light of the fact that the South African company has seen its market share drop precipitously in recent years, as competition from Russia intensifies. The company also announced Wednesday that it will flood the market with some of the millions of diamonds it has traditionally hoarded to keep prices high, suggesting that De Beers is hurting. Throwing open the vaults may bring prices...
...enchanted evening, your prince charming was supposed to drop to his knees at your feet, open a velvet box, and slip a diamond on your left hand as you choke back happy tears and mentally calculate how quickly you could find a phone. These days, thanks to a very millennial mix of political correctness, collective guilt and obsessive individuality, it's not quite so simple...
...Softball: Traditional spring diversion of Harvard student groups. The Crimson dominated on the diamond last spring, and is riding a 113-year winning streak over the Lampoon...
FUTURISTIC MATERIALS A diamond's extraordinary clarity and strength make it an ideal building material, but also terribly hard to work with. Nanobots, however, could make diamonds in any shape at all--a sheet a few millimeters thick, say, to make a scratchproof window. And because the basic feedstock is ordinary carbon, these diamonds are as cheap as glass...