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   ocr: FASHION cut diamond, this try. Lasers, fori instance, are now being used to cut step involves no stones. An accomplished cleaver can cut, say, 100 fewer than nine stages stones a day; the output using lasers is easily 10 (four for a round cut) of times that. Also, with lasers, there are fewer mis- meticulous, patient crafts- takes resulting from human error. "In an extreme manship. case," says Andy Yanay, a cleaving expert based After the diamond is cut, in Antwerp, "with a one-carat stone, one wrong itis boiled for cleansing cleave can make a $5,000 difference." and checked again for flaws. T ...