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...supply the government with currency paper when the contract went up for bid this spring. Appleton, an employee-owned company, figured to spend more than $70 million upgrading one of its three paper mills, enabling it to produce watermarks, machine-readable micropatterns and embedded threads and metal fibers--the gold standard in anticounterfeiting technology. "We see it as a way to serve our country at the same time we expand our business," says spokesman Bill Van Den Brandt...
...Congo's. But a choice like that comes with a cost. Congo represents the promise of Africa as much as its misery: its fertile fields and tropical forests cover an area bigger than California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and Texas combined. Its soils are packed with diamonds, gold, copper, tantalum (known locally as coltan and used in electronic devices such as cell phones and laptop computers) and uranium. The waters of its mighty river could one day power the continent. Yet because Congo is so rich in resources, its problems, when left to fester, tend to suck its neighbors...
...reason but makes our reason bow low, its forehead scraping the dust and bearing like Cain the mark of that dust. Mohammed was a mortal man but visited Paradise and consorted with the realities there. Our deeds and thoughts were written in the Prophets consciousness in letters of gold, like the burning words of electrons that a computer creates of pixels as we tap the keyboard...
...films in the horror and science fiction genres are the movie rhinestones that alchemize into box office gold, thanks to a loyal contingent of dateless 14-year-old boys on a Friday night. At Cannes they are usually orphan children; here, the preferred genre is the minimalist melodrama...
...generosity from ordinary Americans, Roosevelt established the nonprofit health agency known today as the March of Dimes. It was a unique grassroots organization that brought together volunteers and scientists from across the country with a common purpose. The March of Dimes went on to become “the gold standard for philanthropies devoted to eliminating diseases,” The New York Times noted on April...