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...this worked? To research my book, The Heartless Stone, I traveled in 2004 and '05 to Africa, where diamonds are mined in conditions that range from the orderly to the horrific, and found virtually no oversight of the violence-prone alluvial-mining sites. Many stones have made their way out of the jungle and into suburban malls via somebody's lower intestinal tract. Even when the diamonds are not smuggled or traded for guns, the wages for the miners can be outrageously unfair. I met a team of diggers in the Central African Republic who were routinely paid...
...kinds of miserable deeds in places like Angola, which is still recovering from a grinding 30-year war and where murder and robbery are facets of daily life in the diamond fields. I was told that miners have been eviscerated if they were suspected of having swallowed a stone...
...Zoellner is the author of The Heartless Stone...
...commentary written during one of my sections last week. Mom and Dad, I’m sorry that I was using class to write my column instead of participating and taking notes. But like you say, college is all about time management, and I killed two birds with one stone on this...
Sources: CNN; Newsday (2); AP; Reuters; Rolling Stone...