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...South African entrepreneur named Mike Nunn, who was buying tanzanite from local miners, spotted an opportunity. He recalls drinking a beer on the hood of his Land Cruiser?the snow on "Kili" pink in the sun's glow?and studying the mining operations below. He had come from the Block D zone reserved for small-scale miners and was headed to Block B, a second area for locals, studded like D with a jumble of corrugated-iron roofs, holes and ladders marking each small claim. But between them was a large dirt stretch with no activity. He made inquiries...
...team are hoping fashion will embrace tanzanite too, but in a lasting way. "When Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez a pink-diamond ring, pink-diamond sales?and even pink-sapphire sales?shot up. It was phenomenal," notes Adrian Banks, managing director of TanzaniteOne Trading. "Then it was over. It was a fashion thing. Tanzanite is not a fashion stone; tanzanite is better than that...
...inner bad girl? How exciting!” I think as I skip along in my pink Oxford and pearls. I’m not the only one. Cosmo is one of the most popular American women’s magazines, boasting circulation in the millions—“The Bible!” Legally Blonde’s lead Elle Woods dubs...
...welcoming mix of pizazz and bohemian comfort. White walls are warmed with pink paint on the first two floors, and muted oak floorboards run throughout. There's also a dramatic, entrance-making spiral staircase. Each floor features Robin's quirky flea-market finds, including a Turkish glass chandelier, armchairs covered in Moroccan brocade, and 1950s pottery. Appropriately, Ciocco calls the new salon the "boudoir of Paris." She says she agreed to the venture out of her infinite respect for Robin's research?adding that his products offer "a complex alchemy" for being effective and being nutritious to the scalp...
...Claudine Gay, nothing is just black or white.Her office is colored in shades of pink and yellow, and a small Haitian painting peeks out from the bookshelf. This is where the newcomer to Harvard scrutinizes America in Technicolor.Though the government professor only arrived in September and has yet to teach her first course, Gay is already shattering the way scholars look at race and politics in the U.S. “She’s just made us rethink some important idea we’ve thought all along,” says Jayne Professor of Government and Professor...