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...Beers' move into retail may be motivated by its shrinking share of the rough-diamond market. In part because of new competing mines in Russia, Australia, Canada and Angola, De Beers' cut has fallen from 80% at its height in the late 1980s to 50% today. The move is controversial. When De Beers announced this venture in 2001, rival retailers stocked with De Beers stones saw it as "the ultimate threat," says Matthew Runci, Jewelers of America CEO. De Beers has promised to refuse its retail spin-off sweetheart deals. Adds Runci: "I've heard people adjusting, as they must...
...Height of Xi Shun, 54, a herdsman from Inner Mongolia, surpassing Tunisia's Radhouane Charbib as the world's tallest living...
...have two sides to the debate—most people who care to listen would agree that slavery is wrong and should be discontinued. Yet frustratingly few people support our cause. Almost nobody in America realizes that 27 million human beings are still enslaved today, more than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade—and tens of thousands of them reside on American soil...
...spent a lot of time on his five La-Z-Boys with ESPN. Fortuitously, in 1997 a presenter from Ohio--Ralph Borror, who runs abraham-lincoln.net--did a Lincoln event at a mall near Rubin's house. Rubin, who has Lincoln's protuberant nose, his scraggly eyebrows, his height (Rubin is 6 ft. 3 in.; Lincoln was 6 ft. 4 in.) and his beard--grown years ago--was surprised, and a bit envious, that someone over at the mall would pay a man to come down from Ohio to do Lincoln. For years, people had been saying to Rubin, "Did anyone...
...Douglass on the sly while a slave) by reading the same books: Aesop's Fables, the Bible, Shakespeare and especially The Columbian Orator, a popular anthology of speeches for boys. They were athletic, strong and tall: Douglass was about 6 ft., Lincoln 6 ft. 4 in., when the average height for men was 5 ft. 7 in. They refrained from alcohol and tobacco at a time when many politicians "squirted their tobacco juice upon the carpet" and drank on the job. They were ambitious men and had great faith in the moral and technological progress of their nation. And they...