They traded glass beads from Venice for as much of it as they could find.

They carry a glass bead in their pocket-- blood red, the size of a pea.

When I mentioned the glass bead, you suddenly looked very guilty and you glanced at your right-hand jacket pocket.

But you're saying that there is in fact a red glass bead in your pocket. Is that what you're saying?

I'm going to turn my desert into glass, and glass is a commodity that you all need, for your elfin oracle mirrors, for your crystal palace, for the colorful glass beads that you keep buying for some reason.

First, online news outlets will have to link not just tosources, but to live footage, ideally shot by citizens. I havecreated op-eds in partnership with a citizens’ video newscollective, The Glass Bead collective.

Melt the place down to beaded glass, if that's what it takes.