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...launched its Rouge et Noir fountain pen in 1908. Two years later the trio introduced the Montblanc fountain pen, named for the snow-covered summit of western Europe's highest mountain. And in 1913 the company adopted a tiny six-pointed white star, also symbolic of the snow-covered peak, as its trademark. Since its launch, the Montblanc pen has revolutionized the industry, elevating beautifully crafted writing instruments to designer status in the ever growing luxury stratosphere. The most expensive model, the limited-edition Meisterstück Solitaire Royal, is decorated with 4,810 pavé diamonds (the metric height of Mont...
...This won't completely alleviate the fear, but we took a look at what happened to the college grads from the Class of 1993. It was a peak year for boomerangs - one of the laziest years on record, if you want to think about it that way. A recently released report from the Department of Education analyzed how the Class of '93 fared, 10 years later...
...Hezbollah’s growing hostility towards the Lebanese administration reached a new peak last week when the party called for the government’s dismantlement. In his most recent speech, Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, called the current government “Mr. Jeffrey Feltman’s government,” referring to the US ambassador to Lebanon...
...ballad You're Beautiful has fewer than 200 words, half of which are beautiful.) Now multiply What More Can I Say's 800 words by 12 to make an album, then multiply again by the number of albums in a catalog, and it's obvious why most rappers peak early: they literally run out of things to talk about...
...number of babies infected with HIV at birth has dropped dramatically--from its peak of more than 1,600 in 1991 to fewer than 50 in 2004--thanks to AZT regimens for HIV-positive mothers. But that leaves nearly 10,000 U.S. children who have been diagnosed with AIDS, and their long-term prognosis says a lot about what lies ahead for millions of children in the developing world...