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...shoulders of Daniels and Cameron. The pair usually decides on routines, formations and personnel, does much of the administrative work, organizes fundraising—the trip to nationals alone cost about $2000 per girl—and Daniels is even the squad’s new web master...
After 17 years as a master craftsman and many more before that as an apprentice, the 51-year-old Childs belongs to a worldwide elite of artisans. He has built 140 violins and 20 violas and caters to a range of top players, including a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a Scottish national champion, and an all- Ireland fiddle champ. Working only on commission, Childs says he finishes five or six violins in a given year. He says it is not a simple matter of making an instrument, but suiting the type of sound to a musician?...
...room to fill new appointments and limited space to expand these rapidly growing collections. The Museum of Comparative Zoology inhabits an old building with limited modern climate control. And substantial expansion of the sciences into the North Yard over the next decade has largely overlooked OEB; while the original master plan of a few years back would have given them an entire building, the only place they might find space now is in a new northwest facility planned for interdisciplinary collaborative labs...
...These top-quality stones are still mostly cut in Antwerp, New York and Tel Aviv, where many of Surat's companies have set up branches in which Indian diamond cutters are absorbing skills from local experts. Arjav Mehta, whose family owns Blue Star, says his company has hired 15 master cutters in Belgium and Israel: "There's a lot we're learning from them." Another ambition among the Palanpuris is for Surat to dethrone Antwerp as the world's center for the diamond trade. That will take some doing; Gujarat, the state in which Surat is located, suffered a blow...
...Master of Doom...