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...Muslim world and perhaps threaten oil supplies? Until these questions are resolved, investors and consumers will sit on their wallets. Meanwhile, what we do know is plainly awful. Consumer confidence, already at an eight-year low before last Tuesday, will fall further. George Mees Jr., owner of GEM Floor Sanding Service in Villa Park, Ill., had a sale fall through just hours after the attacks. "I'm sure to get cancellations," he says. "Nobody's going to want to spend money...
...could have stopped there - a gem of a line, a Hallmark-card-sized summation of the littlest and best things we can do - but when American shores are smoldering still, Bush must have realized that more couldn't hurt. Be calm, not scared; be tolerant, not blind; be generous, not selfish; be patient, patient, patient, at airports and skyscrapers and landmarks and hotels and traffic stops and bus stops and train stations and anywhere else it is possible to imagine a public vulnerability, which of course is everywhere...
...exhibits at this year’s Biennale are not universially strong, but if you are willing to spend an afternoon among steamrollers and manequins, you just might find a gem. And who knows, maybe it’ll show up at the Whitney in a few years...
...replica of the tablet - the town's sole record of Zheng He's passing - sits in the National Maritime Museum alongside pieces of the wrecked ships of later Dutch and Portuguese visitors. Although he may be forgotten, Zheng He would recognize much in Galle's narrow alleys where gem hustlers still ply their trade as they did almost 600 years ago. According to the admiral's chronicler Ma Huan, inland mountain streams flushed gems to the surface after heavy rains, a bounty of "red rubies, blue sapphires, yellow oriental topaz and other gems," he wrote. "There is a saying that...
...then it was too late. To Lao officials, Kerry and Kay Danes and Gem Mining Lao were one and the same. With Jeppesen and Bruns out of reach, the government arrested the only corporate representatives left in Laos, the Danes. Held for more than six months before they were charged, the couple was finally accused of embezzling and selling sapphires. Prosecutors at the one-day trial provided little evidence to support the claims, and the verdict was typed before the trial even started. The case has provoked outrage in Australia and, though negotiations continue, calls are growing...