Gold and Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friends

Japanese people are rushing to get the same three-stone diamond earrings Shizuka Arakawa was wearing when she won the gold medal in Turin Winter Olympics, women's figure skating. Diamond retailer Lazare Kaplan Japan is getting over 100 calls a day, and running short of stock. Arakawa's was a present from her mother, who wished her daughter would keep "shining". The price of the earrings range from 270,000 to 500,000 yen (about $2300-4300 at $1=116 yen). Seems to indicate that the Japanese economy is picking up.