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...Pearl lovers, Hong Kong is your oyster. Just ask Joanne Larby. The Chicago accountant-cum-tourist was recently rubbing a strand against her teeth to verify the pearls' authenticity at a jewelry counter on Kowloon's Nathan Road. The teeth-test, of course, is overrated; rubbing the pearls against one another is more effective without risking damage to the gems. But Larby wasn't taking any chances. This was the 32nd string of pearls Larby had run across her pearly whites that day. "The pearls are just so cheap here," she explained, "I'm not convinced they're real...
...right, in a sense. Real, better known as natural, pearls are practically impossible to buy in Hong Kong or anywhere else, these days. Natural pearls occur when foreign material, usually a stone or parasite, enters an oyster's shell and it can't expel the irritant. The mollusk instead coats the intruder with nacre, the secretion used to make its shell, forming a pearl. Once, they were the exclusive preserve of royalty - the fact that only 1 in 10,000 oysters may contain a round natural pearl made them more valuable than diamonds...
...Mikimoto, famous for their cultured pearls, is also stepping up its fashion week presence here with a new collection called "Stormy Weather," designed by Yohji Yamamoto, who was inspired by the variations of grays on the house's pearls and the "forms and colors trailing in the wake of a boat in stormy weather." The collection includes a $55,000 necklace made of 28 white gold discs, each containing a pearl and each representing one of the 28 phases of the moon...
TIME's interview with the subject of the film A Mighty Heart continues on Time.com. Read these extra questions with Mariane Pearl...
What do you think should be the legacy of Daniel Pearl? -Jodi-Ann Lyons, Albany, New YorkI think it should be us. I think it should be Adam and I and what we are going to do in the world and how we are going to live our lives and how we are going to maintain the spirits of our family in the future...