The top pick in the natural wonders category is far more visible, especially from the beaches of Waikiki: Diamond Head State Monument in Honolulu tops the list, followed by the Grand Canyon, Northern California's Muir Woods and other awe-inspiring natural sites in the United States and beyond.

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Alpha Natural Resources ( ANR) and Diamond Offshore Drilling ( DO) make my short list of patterns to play should we see higher oil prices in the intermediate term.

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Finally (there's no need to list all 26 companies here), there's Nizhne-Lenskoye , a huge diamond miner in Yakutia in Eastern Siberia, which was made famous by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his notorious Gulag Archipelago.

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's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) ABC hit Desperate Housewives--and teen starlet Lindsay Lohan--ranked No. 52 on The Forbes Celebrity 100 list--crammed into the swank Fifth Avenue location, which is co-owned by diamond conglomerate De Beers and luxury goods giant LVMH (otc: LVMUY - news - people ).

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