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...Beers unveiled the most significant symbol of that transformation in March, when it hosted a dinner in Gaborone, in the atrium of what is now De Beer's main diamond-sorting, -valuing and -aggregating unit. The glass-and-steel construction will employ 500 Batswana and generate a further 2,500 ancillary jobs, particularly in 16 cutting and polishing factories set up around the new plant, and on its sorting benches, which will process a total of 34 million carats a year--22% of world output--or $6 billion in diamonds by 2009. "Our diamonds are for development," Botswana's then...
...grew up on a farm drinking raw milk--but won't do it now. "You can't always tell when a cow is sick," she says. "And cows can sometimes kick the milking machine off. Generally, what's on the barn floor is not something I want in a glass...
...meet the same bacteria-count standards as pasteurized milk, as Washington and Maine currently do. But even with regulations, consumers would still be putting a lot of trust in the farmer and the health of the cow. In the end, that may be too much work for a glass of milk...
Brian J. Bolduc’s article (“The Crack in the Glass Ceiling,” Op-ed, April 16) typifies the defective logic and unnerving excitement of those who disregard the existence of racism, sexism, and inequality in the United States. I describe Bolduc’s tone as one of excitement, for he (and others who claim racism no longer hampers minorities’ life chances) writes as if it is truly exciting that his “evidence” proves there is something defective about minorities, and especially blacks, that cannot be tied...
...delicious. The tour continued through a wine store and a green grocer before returning to the shops I visited with Giovanna Tognetti the week before—La Salumeria Italiana, Sulmona Meat Market, and Polcari’s Coffee, where plastic barrels of dried legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled like the deepest corner of a spice cabinet. Topor pointed out the same things that Ms. Tognetti had: the “real” Nutella in the glass jar, the impact of the Euro on the Salumeria...