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Once pearls were considered far more valuable than diamonds, since only 1 in 10,000 oysters may contain a round natural pearl. In Roman times, pearls were so sought after and expensive that Julius Caesar barred women below a certain rank from wearing them. It wasn't until Kokichi Mikimoto, founder of Mikimoto pearls, successfully cultured pearls in the early 1900s that they could be easily matched and made into necklaces (before that, it could take up to 10 years to find enough matching pearls to make a strand). It was Coco Chanel who exploited the discovery of cultured pearls...
...price. Look for pearls that have few visible dimples, bumps or wrinkling. Decide whether you want to spend money on the more expensive perfectly spherical or symmetrical pearls or are willing to go for a more organic shape. After all, pearls are produced by nature, and nearly round pearls or organic shapes like baroque or semibaroque have character and may be easier on the wallet...
Kids in the town of Panguitch, Utah (pop. 1,600), have a name for Tom Hartsfield: Santa. Hartsfield encourages it, telling them he lives in Utah because it's too cold to stay at the North Pole year round. He'll even invite them to tug his beard if they seem doubtful. When they discover that the white whiskers are real, they tend to give him "sort of a shocked look," he says. "The real beard makes them believe more...
...easy to see why looking like Santa could be an asset this month, as they ho-ho-ho their way through private parties, malls, hospitals and day-care centers. But what kind of red-blooded American male wants to look like Santa all year round...
...matter that the Bruins earned a spot in the national championship game? Because just under a month ago, UCLA sent a promising Crimson squad home for the winter with a sound 3-0 defeat in the second round of the tournament. Harvard had entered the postseason as the highest-scoring team in the country and, after a gritty win over Binghamton at home in the opening round, looked like it might have the promise...