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Once pearls were considered far more valuable than diamonds, since only 1 in 10,000 oysters may contain a round natural pearl. In Roman times, pearls were so sought after and expensive that Julius Caesar barred women below a certain rank from wearing them. It wasn't until Kokichi Mikimoto, founder of Mikimoto pearls, successfully cultured pearls in the early 1900s that they could be easily matched and made into necklaces (before that, it could take up to 10 years to find enough matching pearls to make a strand). It was Coco Chanel who exploited the discovery of cultured pearls...
There are few sociologists in America as important as Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub of the University of Chicago. Wilson—who left Hyde Park for Cambridge a decade ago—and Taub conduct sociology in the classic Chicago style: sending well-trained graduate students into Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods to probe the city’s complex race, class, and social interactions...
...There Goes the Neighborhood By William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub Knopf...
...Kenyon Martin, gets too much hype and works best as a supporting player. Hell Rell, like Nene, doesn’t do very much, but he still makes bank. J. R. Writer is obviously J. R. Smith. Freeky Zeeky, with his propensity to get shot during traffic incidents, is Julius Hodge. Where does Jim Jones fit in? As the video for “We Fly High” attests, he’s better off on the bench. —Jake G. Cohen
...infectious disease experts, William H. Foege and Anthony S. Fauci, received the Harvard School of Public Health’s most prestigious award in a ceremony on Monday. The Julius B. Richmond Award recognizes doctors or other activists who have committed themselves to “high public health standards among vulnerable populations,” according to a statement from the school. “[Foege and Fauci] have probably changed the world between them as much as anyone in public health,” said the school’s dean, Barry R. Bloom. Foege is a former...