1.0 link 224193 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-blair/liberias-lucky-game-the-h_b_224193.html I am eating lunch on the patio of the Green Forest guesthouse in Weasua, Liberia, a dusty town in the north of the country. Mitch, Green Forest's caretaker, has just returned from his morning of manual labor. He holds out his empty hands and shrugs. Handsome, well-dressed, and congenitally optimistic, he smiles even as he delivers disappointing news. "No diamond today."

Mitch is in his early 30s and works as an artisanal diamond miner, known colloquially as a...

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