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Although tanzanite was formed some 585 million years ago, it was not "discovered" until 1967. Nomadic Masai tribes had pried balls of the stone from outcroppings on the surface of the earth, but it was only when outsiders noticed that the stone took off. One of them, Manuel D'Souza, an Indian tailor living in Tanzania who was a hobbyist prospector, helped bring it to the attention of Tiffany, and the New York City jeweler signed on for an exclusive. Tiffany is said to have named the stone tanzanite?after judging the technical name, blue zoisite, to be too close...
...Eurostar. www.statravel.com For the Adventurer... Explore Costa Rica: $382 gets you airfare from Boston to San Jose, six days’ accomodation, and your own personal tour guide. Spend three days in the rainforest and climbing the Arenal volcano, and three days sleeping it off on the beach at Manuel Antonio. Return with a tan your friends will hate you for, along with unidenitfiable insect bites. www.statravel.com You Get What You Give Give a little bit back and head down to New Orleans for the Katrina relief effort. Register with up to 14 friends and camp out at volunteer center...
...sacrifice" his foreign minister because of the possible misdeeds of her brother. Nevertheless, after the senator's arrest on Feb. 15, domestic and international pressure forced Minister Araujo's resignation, to the relief of other cabinet members. "It became evident that the situation was untenable," said Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, who had just launched a campaign to drum up international funding of military and social programs for the next six years. "In every meeting [with foreign dignitaries] we had to explain about the foreign minister's situation...
...national Bolivarian project," his program to use Venezuela's oil wealth to fund social programs as well as to bolster a regional united front against U.S. influence. Now, the scale of his victory - the National Electoral Council gave him a 23% lead over contender Manuel Rosales with over three-quarters of votes counted - will be claimed as a mandate to deepen his "socialist revolution," with the help of a legislature wholly under the control of his allies after the opposition boycotted last year's parliamentary elections...
...INAUGURATED. Felipe Calderón, 44, as President of Mexico; after winning a July election by a margin of 0.56% over leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has refused to concede; in Mexico City. An hour before the conservative Calderón took his oath in the congressional chamber, legislators allied with López Obrador--who has set up a parallel government--brawled with Calderón partisans and barricaded doors in an attempt to delay the ceremony. In his inaugural address, Calderón called for unity, saying, "To those who voted for others, I will not ignore your causes...