Word: platinum
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...anniversary, the line is getting an updated look. The freshly made-over Diagonos feature redesigned dials, bezels, hands and lugs. Bulgari is also introducing several new models that take Diagono to the top tiers of watchmaking. One of the most complicated timepieces, the Diagono Tourbillon?limited to 30 platinum pieces?is an exemplar of the company's increasingly vertically integrated production. Its movement (i.e., the watch's inner workings) is made up of 200 minuscule pieces?52 in the tourbillon mechanism alone. (The tourbillon is a fancy device originally designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled...
...Hops. What American giveth with one hand, it taketh with the other. A new mileage-award policy takes effect Dec. 31: Short-haul flights, which once earned fliers a minimum of 500 mileage points, will now earn points equal only to the actual miles flown. Super-elite gold and platinum AAdvantage members, however, will still receive the 500-point minimum...
...kids who play sport?" he'd ask. "Who are growing up and learning how to be themselves?" Evidently so: more than 255 million people around the world have seen the original HSM movie, and 293 million have seen its sequel. The album of High School Musical 2 went triple platinum in the U.S., quadruple platinum in Argentina and gold in Saudi Arabia...
...money, but I don't do it for that. I do it for the love of the form. I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons. My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card. You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, "No. You shouldn't be doing that." And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have...
...Harvard students flock to campus in dewy-eyed obscurity, it’s safe to say that only one has already accomplished the rock star trifecta: multi-platinum album sales, critical acclaim, and—the holy grail—an appearance on MTV’s “Cribs”: Incubus guitarist Mike A. Einziger. FM’s paparazzi tracked down the rock star-cum-graduate student for fifteen questions...