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Crushing the trade in “conflict diamonds” looks about as easy as winning the War on Drugs, but that hasn’t stopped the United States and 43 other nations from forging ahead with their plans. Conflict diamonds are those precious but sinister stones that no one with a good conscience can buy. Their procurement is brutal; their sale finances war. And last week, a group of nations agreed to implement the Kimberly Process, a system that will put an end to the trade of conflict diamonds, at least in theory...
...folks. California attorney general Bill Lockyer fired off an angry letter to DEA chief Asa Hutchinson, who wrote back saying that federal law allows the feds to seize pot. "During the Clinton years they didn't do this," says Lockyer. "It disappointed me that they would be using precious resources to act like a bunch of bullies." San Jose police chief William Lansdowne was so annoyed by the raid that he withdrew his officers from the local DEA task force, ending 15 years of close work. Even Governor Gray Davis, who has been quiet on the marijuana issue, expressed concern...
...been through these halls before. I have a lot of precious memories. Glad to be back for a moment,” West said to begin his speech...
...might consider wearing it. Or so suggest the curators of "The Adventures of Aluminium, Jewellery to Jets," at London's Design Museum through Jan. 19, which polishes up the familiar stuff. Today a symbol of our throwaway culture, aluminum was not so long ago a precious metal. When a French scientist first extracted tiny pieces of it in 1845, the earth's most abundant metal was as valuable as gold and used in jewelry and precious objects. But only 10 years later, a new chemical extraction process made aluminum more easily obtainable, and from then on its lightness and durability...
...flawed, it can still powerfully challenge uses of religion in modern times. Even in her most Biblical moments, in a chapter written in the style of Old Testament verse, Horn’s humorous criticisms come through. As the Jobean Bill wails at the loss of his precious slides, he confronts Leora, “With your supermarket ethics! Philosophy of Costco! Morality of strip malls; theology of home videos...