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...attracted by the beautiful blue," explains Donald Greig in a telephone interview. He and two brothers are the fourth-generation owners of Charles Greig Jewellers, with six stores in South Africa. "It's a color that looks good on everyone, which is not the case for emeralds and rubies." Seven years ago, he says, tanzanite was difficult to come by, but today it represents an astounding 20% of sales in his stores, equal to watches and topped only by diamonds, which account for a third of his sales. "It is by far our most important colored gemstone," Greig says...
...That helps to explain why, for example, Japan's stock index took such a hit on Feb. 28 after approaching a seven-year high earlier in the week. Toyota, Sony et al would surely feel it if a slowdown in the U.S. proves sharper than expected. But will it? On the same day that the dismal durable-goods number came out, a monthly survey of U.S. consumer confidence rose unexpectedly, and so did the latest figures for existing U.S. home sales. In other words, a painful U.S. slowdown is not, by any means, a given. And for those...
Workers-rights advocate Lech Walesa won the Peace Prize in 1983 for co-founding the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union. Seven years later, he was elected President of Poland...
...daily routine. For example, though Dern and Gahr performed with So Long Princess on the show, the band has garnered only transient attention.“We get a lot of MySpace plays, or more than we did,” he says. “In the last seven weeks we’ve been over 50,000.”Nevertheless, MySpace hits do not a successful career-launch make.“No one’s asked us for a record deal. We’re trying to start a rumor that Pete Wentz from Fall...
...While a 1993 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that only 40 percent of people favored allowing openly gay people to serve in the military, a 2006 Zogby poll showed that 73 percent of military personnel were comfortable with gays and lesbians. The Military Readiness Act received bipartisan support from seven Republicans when it was first introduced. The House, under the leadership of a newly elected Democratic majority, will hold hearings on the issue this spring for the first time since 1993. Steve Ralls, director of communications for the Service Members Legal Defense Network, said that the hearings will present...