Word: marked
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...idea sounds good on paper but is tricky to execute. Every year millions of gems, ranging in size from small specks to major stones, are sorted into 14,000 categories before they are cut and polished, making it nearly impossible to mark each one in a way that could be retained from mine to showroom. Says Willy Nagel, a top De Beers broker in London: "The certification of diamonds is not foolproof. Smuggling is so widespread and so difficult to combat that one way or another, the UNITA diamonds are going to get on the market...
...ramps. Many of these experts are weary of amateurs' pushing bizarre theories that often involve space aliens. "Even if Caltech demonstrates you can lift heavy blocks using kites, that doesn't prove the Egyptians could have built a pyramid that way," says Edward Brovarski, an Egyptologist at Brown University. Mark Lehner, a Harvard archaeologist widely regarded as the leading U.S. expert on the pyramids, was so appalled at the kite theory that he declined comment. Zahi Hawass, Under Secretary of State for Egypt's Giza plateau, explained that "Egyptologists call people with these kinds of theories 'pyramidiots...
TIME's cover story on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding of fact in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft was right on the mark [BUSINESS, Nov. 15]. The suit brought by the government seems to have been less about the power and influence of Microsoft and more about reprimanding those who have acquired too much, too easily and too quickly. The government seems to think that people who have the wealth, power and influence of Microsoft ceo Bill Gates must be doing something wrong. Why can't our government recognize success for what it is--hard work...
...employees? And how much state and local tax revenue? What would happen if Microsoft were to move its operations to another country? I am sure the company would find a welcome anywhere. The Justice Department should consider these questions before proceeding further in the case against Microsoft. MARK A. SMITH Uhrichsville, Ohio...
...Mark Katz's commentary "Power Children" [ESSAY, Nov. 15], he criticized the teen worshipping of recent years. I am a part of the generation that has grown up with countless television shows and self-help books on how to be a teenager. You need not worry that teen worship will turn us from the golden calf into a tarnished cow. Even though we have got more attention, we are still the same people. The extra focus on teens and children in today's society is not necessarily a bad thing. LISA CHEN, AGE 17 New York City...