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UPS Employee Swapped Stolen Diamond For Pot

2014-09-27 00:49:15| Trucking - Topix.net

SEPTEMBER 26--A United Parcel Service worker who discovered a $160,000 diamond inside a package he swiped inexplicably traded the valuable jewel for a bag of marijuana, Arizona investigators charge. Walter Earl Morrison, 20, allegedly nicked the package late last month while unloading a UPS cargo plane at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport.

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New diamond nanothreads could be the key material for building a space elevator

2014-09-23 14:12:49| Extremetech

Researchers have created the first diamond nanothreads -- which are basically like carbon nanotubes, but stronger and stiffer. Mathematically, these diamond nanothreads are possibly the strongest and stiffest material that can be constructed in the known universe. As interest in space elevators and other international megaprojects swell, these diamond nanothreads might be exactly what we need to get crazy seemingly impossible constructions off the whiteboard and into reality.

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VIDEO: China the 'engine' for diamond trade

2014-09-22 02:28:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The chief executive of De Beers says that China will be the 'engine' of growth for the diamond market.

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Diamond Packaging announces landfill-free status

2014-09-16 18:35:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines

New York-based Diamond Packaging, which helps box products for clients like Bausch & Lomb, Estée Lauder, Johnson & Johnson, LOreal and Procter & Gamble, has claimed to have reached landfill-free status.

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