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...never grasped the full significance of Mr. T's jewelry until he took it all off at the dinner after the interview and I felt, well, dirty. He doesn't sport 40 pounds of gold and diamond chains, charms, wrist and ankle bracelets every day just to impress Crimson reporters, adoring fans, or even Crimson reporters who are adoring fans. Mr. T has some explanation for everything he wears. For instance, he eats his meals with the huge gold eating utensils around his neck (he takes his drink from a gold and diamond goblet, the idea for which...
...months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge and the heavily Jewish New York City diamond district...
...only estates in the $700,000- to-$1 million range used them. We're now seeing them in $200,000 homes." Says Anthony Potter, a private security consultant in Atlanta: "In the past, people thought home-security systems were too expensive -- that it was only for people with diamond collections." But, he adds, "they are seeing that it is not that expensive. It cuts their homeowner's insurance." Many are also thinking of gun ownership. Says Potter: "I know a lot of people who five years ago would not have thought about asking me about guns. Now they're asking...
...sense of their modern lives. In the remote highlands of Guatemala and Mexico, where the rugged terrain has held the outside world at bay, contemporary Maya still practice many of the same rituals that were performed by their ancestors 4,000 years ago. Maya weavers embroider their wares with diamond motifs that are virtually identical to the cosmological patterns depicted on the lintels of ancient temples at Yaxchilan and other Maya sites. By marking their clothing with the symbols of their ancestors, the Maya artisans build a material link to pre-Columbian gods -- and the indelible spirit of their cultural...
Harvard chemists have come up with a substance that in theory should be harder than diamond, considered the hardest substance on earth. The new synthetic material is a blend of carbon and nitrogen (diamond is all carbon), and if the researchers can make a chunk big enough and pure enough to test, they'll be able to see whether the theory is correct...