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...diamond jewelry made by many brand-name designers can put the pieces forever out of reach. Items in Chanel's fine jewelry range usually come with six-figure price tags, while Dior's Provocante white gold-and-diamond necklace sells for around $70,000. Now Vivienne Westwood, the British pioneer of punk fashion, is designing a line of "affordable" jewelry called Hardcore Diamonds, her first rock collection. The pieces, available in Westwood stores from July, are for the mass market. The characteristically unconventional collection includes white gold-and-diamond safety pins, as well as paper clips, arrows and her trademark...
...Year, Osama bin Laden. The world is not the U.S., and the U.S. is not the world. Edwin Del Valle Manila I hope South African president thabo Mbeki gets the chance to read that Time has named him "the most powerful man in Africa." Mbeki has an opportunity to pioneer change from within. At the top of his list should be taking a stand against autocratic rulers like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who is personally responsible for running down Zimbabwe's once thriving economy. It's time to take a hard line against exploitative politicians and crooked leaders. Mbeki must...
...BedZED won its place at the top of Britain's green living charts because it's a pioneer in microgeneration - the local production of clean, renewable power by individuals and small communities to meet their own energy needs. As evidence of global warming increases, microgeneration is touted as a sustainable alternative to the fossil fuels that help form greenhouse gases. Conservationists argue that only clean energy technologies derived from wind, solar, wave and other natural power sources can ensure a healthy environment and sustainable economic growth. Micropower is far less of an imposition on the landscape, though, than big wind...
...benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John Salmon. Paying for more prominent listings, he says, gives companies "an additional shop window." For Google, and its competitors like Yahoo!, local search advertising has become a hot new revenue stream; last week the California-based pioneer announced first quarter revenue of $1.26 billion - nearly double its turnover for the same period last year. "Search is integrating itself into every part of our lives," says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch. "And local is one of the big things the search engines are targeting, because they know...
...take off until he asked himself, Why do green beans have to be boiled in salted water? "All the books said it was a must, but I couldn't figure out why," says Blumenthal. With no cooking mentors to rely on, he cold-called Oxford University molecular-gastronomy pioneer Nicholas Kurti, only to learn that Kurti had died in 1998. So Blumenthal got the list of participants at Kurti's annual food-science conference and rang Peter Barham, a physicist at the University of Bristol. "The answer is that green beans don't need salted water," says Barham. "Heston...