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"Most people are all too familiar with having champagne tastes on a beer budget. But when it comes to diamonds, you may be able to have it both ways. That&amp;#039;s because gem-quality diamonds are now being grown in laboratories in places like Sarasota, Fla., and Boston. Forget cubic zirconia and Moissanite, which are made to pass as diamonds. Lab-grown stones are the real deal. And instead of the millions of years it takes to create natural diamonds, they&amp;#039;re grown by man in a matter of days.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve essentially recreated the same conditions that occur hundreds of miles below the surface,&amp;quot; says David Hellier, president of Gemesis, the Florida company that specializes in growing colored diamonds. &amp;quot;After about four and a half days, we get a three-carat rough diamond. From that day forward, there&amp;#039;s no difference between that diamond and one that comes from the ground.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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