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...dinner in Gaborone, in the atrium of what is now De Beer's main diamond-sorting, -valuing and -aggregating unit. The glass-and-steel construction will employ 500 Batswana and generate a further 2,500 ancillary jobs, particularly in 16 cutting and polishing factories set up around the new plant, and on its sorting benches, which will process a total of 34 million carats a year--22% of world output--or $6 billion in diamonds by 2009. "Our diamonds are for development," Botswana's then President Festus Mogae told TIME at the opening of the facility. "This building is evidence...
...billion over four years. Farmers now get emergency aid for disasters like flood or drought on a case-by-case basis, but payments can take years. Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, says the new program would allow farmers to borrow more money more quickly, and plant "fence row to fence row" to "give us a market response to these high prices...
...leave the viewer in a bit of a comedic haze upon viewing. I remember leaving “Knocked Up” amused, not remembering what exactly was funny but knowing that something surely was. The same thing goes for the latest out of Apatow’s plant, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” the romcom centered around one man’s attempt to do just that. The first hour of the film is objectively funny, reveling in the structure of the riff and creating an environment in which the audience feels compelled to laugh...
...Korean government, was sentenced to death for expressing her disagreement with the government’s smearing of an innocent man, Choi described the standard of living in his home country. He spoke about the extreme lack of food in North Korea, describing how people would eat tree bark, plant roots, and weeds to stay alive. “He knows very well about the situation in North and South Korea,” said Hyung Kun Lee, a Korean consul in Boston, who attended Choi’s speech. “His story is very tragic...
...many weeks at the top of the stairs facing the front door. That was where she and the boy had waited together whenever my husband and I had left the house without them. In the garden, next to the pond that the boy dog loved, I will plant a dwarf crab apple tree. It will flower in the spring...