nsxt2000
12-08-2010, 03:47 PM
These are from the latest issue of Time magazine:
* 6.77 Seconds / The new world record for solving a Rubik's Cube, set by a 15-year-old Aaustralian boy. Unbelievable!
* $46 Million / Amount paid by a London jeweler for a rare pink diamond - the most expensive stone ever sold at auction.
* 2.8 Million / Estimated number of pilgrims in Mecca for the first day of the HAJJ, a religious event. Now that's a lot of folks!
* $80 Million / Estimated value of the bullletproof car market in Mexico, where there has been a surge in kidnappings and carjackings.
-Mike S.
* 6.77 Seconds / The new world record for solving a Rubik's Cube, set by a 15-year-old Aaustralian boy. Unbelievable!
* $46 Million / Amount paid by a London jeweler for a rare pink diamond - the most expensive stone ever sold at auction.
* 2.8 Million / Estimated number of pilgrims in Mecca for the first day of the HAJJ, a religious event. Now that's a lot of folks!
* $80 Million / Estimated value of the bullletproof car market in Mexico, where there has been a surge in kidnappings and carjackings.
-Mike S.