Word: diamonditis
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...watch 60 minutes of the most in-shape athletes on the planet rocketing across the surface of a giant diamond. • People literally walk on water! Last guy to popularize water-walking got a religion built around him. That guy was Rocket Richard; the religion is the Montreal Canadiens. • It's safely homoerotic for the hetero man: dudes in this game touch and rub up against each other constantly and straight guys scream for more. Woof! • The humility inherent in the sport: they make themselves more available to the press than any other athletes and always talk about...
...those of you looking for the next Harvard pornographic magazine, H-Bomb's Spring 2009 edition is not it. For that you'll have to go find that old copy of Diamond Magazine...
...country. It's a remarkable country. All these difficulties that one finds in many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa actually really don't apply so much to Botswana. Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds. And of course now there's a bit of difficulty with the diamond industry. So they're suffering in Botswana but not to the extent that they're suffering in many other countries in the region...
...Argentina was one of the world's richest countries; poor European emigrants found themselves choosing between New York City and Buenos Aires. Somewhere along the way, though, things took a turn. Much has been written about why some economies thrive while others flail. But compared with works like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Beattie's take is markedly less deterministic. Corruption may have killed Africa, he notes, but it worked rather well in South Korea, where bribery attained taxlike precision. Beattie, an editor at the Financial Times, develops a few themes: free trade is good. Infrastructure is unsexy...
...used to be that research was No. 1. Now people are working harder to be better teachers," Diamond says. Sifting through e-mails, the 82-year-old professor reads over messages she's saved from students and teachers who watched her lectures from as far away as England and Egypt. "At this time of life, when everybody else is retiring and stepping aside, thinking they've done it all, you're getting this worldwide connection. It's beautiful...