Word: gold
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DuCille brought home the gold in the 50-yard freestyle and swam the first leg of the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team...
...centuries, this little anecdote - like many others in Herodotus's famous text - seemed to be a myth. The Histories is lined with rumors and fantastical hearsay of ants that dig for gold, rings that make their bearers invisible and winged serpents that patrol remote mountain passes. But recent excavations in western Egypt by a team of Italian archaeologists may have unearthed traces of this long-lost army, entombed in the desert for some 2,500 years. (See TIME's photo-essay "Tutankhamun: The Boy King...
...China has caught on to something that eludes most governments and companies in the West. Chinese state-owned and private enterprises believe African consumers could be the great untapped gold mine. Beijing's engagement with African leaders and governments is increasingly about ensuring that Chinese firms are best placed to sell their products when Africans start buying. (Read "Africa: Open for Business...
...because it's really expensive. Hope a somewhat weaker dollar will help revive this country's beaten-down manufacturing sector - as seems to be happening - but also hope a dollar slide doesn't turn into a collapse. And put at least some of your money into investments (foreign stocks, gold, other commodities) that stand a chance of thriving even if the dollar doesn...
...though, the competition wasn’t really about just music, or cocaine, or money—it was about the art of gaming. “In a lot of circles, games aren’t accepted as legitimate forms of art,” said Adam R. Gold ’11, president of the HCIMG. At least to the screaming virtual crowds, those circles were dead wrong...