Gwadar and the "String of Pearls"

the Diplomat-Feb. 8, 2013

Accordingly, many in New Delhi fret over the prospect of a "string of pearls," a network of Chinese naval bases encircling India from the sea and cramping the ...

UAE in Pearl Industry Revival Push

Wall Street Journal (blog)-Jun. 13, 2013

The pearl industry in the United Arab Emirates collapsed due to the Great Depression and as Japan developed a new way of cultivating pearls at the beginning ...

Pearls and the Puzzle of How They Form Perfect Spheres

MIT Technology Review-Apr. 18, 2013

“Pearls, the most flawless and highly prized of them, are perhaps the most perfectly spherical macroscopic bodies in the biological world. How are they so round ...

Daisy Buchanan's $4.7 Million Pearl Necklace

Forbes-May 23, 2013

"The day before the wedding," Fitzgerald writes of Tom, "he bought her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars." Tom and Daisy were ...