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Twenty minutes down a dusty unpaved road, about 30 miles east of Arusha, past Masai herdsmen in traditional dress, is the guarded entrance to the mines. Ahead, teams of donkeys are carrying drinking water to the miners. At a glance, you can take in the entire four-mile stretch where the tanzanite is buried in maddening folds deep below the earth's surface. It's hard to get an exact fix on how much is there?geologists recently updated their models and project a 15-year supply. Of course, it depends on all sorts of variables. Whether the biggest companies...
...below. He had come from the Block D zone reserved for small-scale miners and was headed to Block B, a second area for locals, studded like D with a jumble of corrugated-iron roofs, holes and ladders marking each small claim. But between them was a large dirt stretch with no activity. He made inquiries, put together a group of private investors in South Africa, and with them eventually took over the mining rights for Block C. The company they created was ultimately baptized TanzaniteOne and listed in 2004 on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange...
...more traditional weaves, giving them a lighter hand or a three-dimensional quality. They pushed the boundaries, often employing far-out materials like rubber and plastic. More recently, Alexander McQueen has expressed a ghostly romantic vibe with fine spiderweb netting. Francisco Costa has been playing with perforated latex and stretch scuba at Calvin Klein. And at Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld reintroduced the idea of rubber, pleating it around evening columns like a sci-fi mummy...
...national park." He has done so once here already, donating another estate he owned in the Argentine southern region of Patagonia to the National Parks administration. Tompkins had originally bought the gigantic Monte Leon 163,000-acre sheep farm in the late 1990s, including a 25-mile stretch of South Atlantic coast, home to one of the largest Magellan penguin rookeries in the world and abundant as well in sea lions, pumas and some 50 bird species. He handed it over in 2004. "We were able to turn Monte Leon into a national park in record time," he says proudly...
...have them delivered to their homes. Lindner takes care of hemming and other minor alterations, and if you can't decide which creation to rent, she'll take photos of you in the dresses that you like so you can make your decision later. "Last year there was a stretch of about two weeks of events where I probably dropped $40,000 in dresses," says Tatiana Platt, an Internet executive and a Wardrobe fan. "It was ridiculous." With Wardrobe, Platt can supplement her well-stocked closet and get the peace of mind that comes with knowing she won't have...