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70Neither Gods Nor Goo: Both our hopes and fears regarding nanotechnology have been extreme from the beginning /ajax:getreplytoitemform/70/70/70%3A70<reply>
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69/ajax:getfullitembody/69/69%3A69New Yorker: Keith Olbermann: One Angry Man
When, in 1981, Olbermann arrived at CNN, then still in its startup throes, he was, at twenty-two, seen as a sportscasting wunderkind—smart, offbeat, and possessed of an encyclopedic range of knowledge. He also had the reputation, even among those who admired his talents, of being somewhat difficult. Growing up in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, in Westchester County, he was the sort of kid who, when his parents thought psychological testing was in order, responded to t... <more> /ajax:getreplytoitemform/69/69/69%3A69<reply>
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58/ajax:getfullitembody/58/58%3A58Is the De Beers cartel finally done for? Let's hope so. FTA:
eeking an unbiased assessment of the quality of these laboratory diamonds, I asked Bryant Linares to let me borrow an Apollo stone. The next day, I place the .38 carat, princess-cut stone in front of Virgil Ghita in Ghita's narrow jewelry store in downtown Boston. With a pair of tweezers, he brings the diamond up to his right eye and studies it with a jeweler's loupe, slowly turning the gem in the mote-filled afternoon sun. "Nice stone, excellen... <more> /ajax:getreplytoitemform/58/58/58%3A58<reply>
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43/ajax:getfullitembody/43/43%3A43Inconspicuous Consumption: Conspicuous consumption, this research suggests, is not an unambiguous signal of personal affluence. It’s a sign of belonging to a relatively poor group. Visible luxury thus serves less to establish the owner’s positive status as affluent than to fend off the negative perception that the owner is poor. The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes.
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