After a morning browsing the souq, jump into a taxi for the 20-minute ride to the Pearl-Qatar, a man-made island in West Bay Lagoon and one of the most up-and-coming areas in Doha.

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Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's chief, complied readily having already promised shortly after Pearl Harbor to supply every man in uniform with a five-cent bottle of Coca-Cola, no matter the cost to the company.

FORBES: A Visit From Coca-Cola

He's a tall man in cowboy boots, a pearl snap shirt and a 10-gallon hat, carrying a leather satchel.

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For his discovery the man was set free, and the largest pearl in the world began the journeys, or peregrinations, that would endow it with its name: La Peregrina.

WSJ: Pearls Gone Wild

And now this turn of events in Pakistan: The man convicted of beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is planning to use Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to appeal his own death sentence.

NPR: Pearl Killer to Appeal Death Sentence

One of those arrested, a Yemeni who has not been named, is suspected of having been part of the three-man execution squad responsible for killing the Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, last winter.

ECONOMIST: A breakthrough