Word: roughness
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Since it may be another decade before such medical applications of diamond become a reality, for now Apollo is using the same CVD process to produce gem-quality stones for the retail market. Just last year the company started selling rough-cut gems to a Boston jewelry retailer. It may prove to be a smart strategy until the industrial market matures; thanks to booming economies in China and India, retail sales of diamond jewelry have been surging for a decade. Analysts expect up to 20% annual growth in the diamond market in China alone. With current mine capacities, that translates...
...Although he had received some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been dropped off in a very rough neighborhood. In late December, forest wardens spotted him via one of a string of video monitors positioned throughout the park. He had been bitten by a wild panda in a fight for territory, says Zhang Hemin, director of the Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda at Wolong. "Our researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded...
...school’s fight song, “10,000 Men of Harvard,” began to play over the arena loudspeaker, even as the Yale bench started celebrating the second straight win for the Bulldogs in Cambridge. It was a fitting ending to a rough night for the Crimson, which fell at home to Yale, 88-78, to drop a game under .500 on the season. Harvard (8-9, 1-2 Ivy) has struggled with its defense all year, entering the game last in the Ivy League in field goal percentage allowed, and the Crimson hit bottom...
...tiny prayer room. Outside, the temperature is below freezing, but inside the air is thick and pungent with the heavy scent of perspiration. A small microphone is turned on, and a middle-aged man with a face creased with grief began chanting a mournful dirge. The penitents, sitting in rough circles, begin to pound their chests in a powerful rhythm amplified by a hundred chest cavities. Deep and as resonant as a heartbeat, the sound gradually changes tenor as thin cotton shirts split with the force of repeated blows and palms slap bare skin. Men wail...
Dusk was falling as the four Sikhs climbed into the crowded bus near the small town of Tanda. They wore rough shawls against the winter cold. The bus was hardly under way when the four pulled automatic weapons from beneath their garments and forced the Hindu driver to turn onto a lonely country road. There the gunmen ordered all Sikh men?identifiable by their turbans and beards?Muslims and women to get off the bus. They commanded the remaining 33 passengers, most of them Hindu, to shout the praises of a Sikh terrorist recently killed in a police shoot...