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Burnett's show is called Gold Rush, and that's pretty much what's going on here. NBC Universal Television Group CEO Jeff Zucker says digital ad opportunities were "all advertisers wanted to talk about" before this spring's "upfronts," where the networks announce their fall schedules to Madison Avenue. Who can blame them? According to technology-analysis firm Forrester Research, 28% of U.S. households had broadband access in 2005--and that's not counting access at work, which is prime time for online TV. (When CBS streamed NCAA basketball this spring, it included a "boss button" that fans could...
...your husband become so wealthy? Marcos was a gold trader. When he entered politics in 1949, he had tons and tons of gold ... It wasn't stolen...
...GOLD WATCH? Surely CBS didn't expect Gunga Dan to sit in his office playing online poker. When DAN RATHER stepped down as anchor of the CBS Evening News last year after apologizing for flawed reporting in a story about President Bush's National Guard service, the longtime journalist hoped to snare some meaty assignments on 60 Minutes. But "after a protracted struggle," Rather said, CBS execs "had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work," and network and newsman parted months before the end of Rather's contract, in November. CBS tried to make...
...This was the genius of India. It takes in the garbage of the diamond world, slaps 58 facets on it, sets it in gold and sends it on. These tiny specks are now the fifth most valuable export of a nation that hasn't mined diamonds from its own soil for more than a century. India's factories, processing an astonishing 92% of the world's diamonds today, have stolen the majority of business away from the old master craftsmen of New York City, Israel and Belgium...
...back to a jeweler. But then I would be contributing, in a tiny way, to a trade that brings misery to millions of people across the world. In the end, this seemed my only option. The jeweler, a gregarious man, chatted with me as he worked on the gold prongs that held the diamond in place. "What's going to happen to it?" I asked. "I'll put it into a new setting, try to sell it in the store," he said. I looked at it for what I knew would be the last time. Its memory would be erased...