In addition to pearl, a number of other organic materials, including amber, coral, ivory, and jet, are considered gems.
Friends and family of two Queensland couples on a missing China-bound Malaysia Airlines jet are praying for a miracle.
Ms. David and the giant carbon footprint left by the wake of her private jet are mocked mercilessly.
Investigations of the crash, which is believed to have been caused by a collision with a small business jet, are continuing.
His contract for the unpaid job of president (the expenses, including the use of a private jet, are not bad) is due to end in 2009.
The molecules in the jet are at first close enough together to interact with each other, but the jet rapidly expands in the vacuum until the molecules move independently.
The carrier and its jet are said to employ the best Chinese technology, but both are also direct descendants of weaponry devised in the dying days of the old Soviet Union.
The resources required of the air-traffic control and airport system to fly a chief executive in his jet are the same required to fly a 767 full of passengers.
The 24 Americans detained here since their surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet are unlikely to be released until the search for the missing Chinese pilot is over, many Chinese say.
Expert witnesses say the problem has been covered up and that the risks of sitting virtually immobile, crammed in the back of a jumbo jet, are not explained to passengers.
Four years after the Northrop Grumman Corporation stopped producing B-2 bombers because Congress had balked at their $2.2-billion-apiece 2.2-billion-apiece 2.2-billion-apieceare hopricefor a revival of the program.
