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...account for 0.4% of India's population. The Palanpuris, who hail from the town of Palanpur in the Indian state of Gujarat, form a close-knit community that thrives in the atmosphere of secrecy and informality that envelops the diamond trade?there are often no written contracts, many transactions occur in cash, and stones worth millions of dollars are transported with virtually no security. "It's an industry built on trust," says Biju Patnaik, a Bombay-based diamond-industry expert at Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The Palanpuris have also ventured over-seas, setting up small family-run polishing centers...
...felt like calling out, “Hey Mister Robber Dude, did it ever occur to you that maybe I needed my naiveté? Well, uh, I did!” Look: bad things happen to good people, right? Ever since God placed bets on Job, we’ve all accepted that. Or at least we do on an intellectual level. But to survive in the real world from day to day, we also have to suppress our cynicism. In every adult, one of the most tenacious stowaways from childhood is a fierce belief that life should be fair...
...challenged his thesis, he said, "I don't think any of these issues are black and white." A central purpose of his article, he said, was to promote a "reasoned national discussion" on Mexican immigration. Fine. Trouble is, recent history suggests that such a rational debate is unlikely to occur...
Meningococcal meningitis is characterized by inflammation of the membranes (meninges) around the brain or spinal cord, which can develop suddenly or gradually, and symptoms of the illness include sudden onset of high fever, nausea, headache, aching muscles, vomiting and mental confusion. Rashes also occur in about half of cases...
Though Catalano says grouping the public and the on-campus crime together is misleading, he says that disclosing the crimes that occur on public property is still important to HUPD because it raises awareness about Harvard’s surroundings...