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...People are attracted by the beautiful blue," explains Donald Greig in a telephone interview. He and two brothers are the fourth-generation owners of Charles Greig Jewellers, with six stores in South Africa. "It's a color that looks good on everyone, which is not the case for emeralds and rubies." Seven years ago, he says, tanzanite was difficult to come by, but today it represents an astounding 20% of sales in his stores, equal to watches and topped only by diamonds, which account for a third of his sales. "It is by far our most important colored gemstone," Greig...
...many grandparents, flying helps them teach their grandkids about the world. The three granddaughters of Betty Foose, 66, a Sammamish, Wash., Realtor, get a geography lesson when she takes them up in her plane. Over the years, Cristina Greig, 15, has learned that California isn't actually golden, and she knows she's in Oregon when she crosses the Columbia River. When Cristina and her sister Alysha were little, they posed their own geography question. As the plane broke through the overcast gray into a brilliant blue sky dotted with white clouds, Alysha, 4, asked, "Grandma, is this heaven?" Foose...
...chance to know each other more profoundly. "Grandkids learn to see their grandfather or grandmother not just as someone who reads stories," says Westport, Conn., clinical psychologist Sara Moss Herz, "but as a person with their own activities and interests. It sparks a different way of connecting." Cristina Greig says her grandma Betty Foose's example taught her that girls can do anything they want. Foose treasures letters that Cristina and her sisters have written to her acknowledging her influence in their lives...
...surfie looks in a spectacular way during the season of 1976-77. After a string of high scores for South Australia, the 21-year-old made his national debut against England in the Centenary Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The blond, left-handed batsman tonked opposing captain Tony Greig for five consecutive boundaries on his way to a handy 56. That sequence is the indelible memory of a marvelous contest; in our minds Hookes remains forever young...
...total, this region should be 5% to 8% of your stock portfolio--easily accomplished through proven funds like Matthews Pacific Tiger and the fund run by Greig, who likes Asian consumer-electronics companies, including Samsung, Canon, Sharp, Pioneer and Taiwan Semiconductor. They have lower prices relative to earnings than U.S. tech companies, plus established export businesses and the best positioning to serve Asia's expanding local markets...