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...Chephren have accumulated in piles on its lower levels. In the pyramid of Cheops, encrustations of salt, left by the evaporation of brackish groundwater, have eaten away at the walls of the burial chamber. The Sphinx, a few hundred feet away from the pyramids, has lost a 600-lb. chunk from its right shoulder, and the neck is so weak that the statue's massive head is in danger of falling...
...enormous chunk of space rock hit the planet, the Alvarezes theorized, it would have largely disintegrated, casting a pall of iridium-rich dust and other debris over the world that could have lasted for months. Deprived of sunlight by this all-natural version of "nuclear winter," plants -- and the animals that fed on them -- would have died in droves. And when the dust finally settled, the iridium it contained would have formed just such a layer as the Alvarezes found...
...Whenever the administration forms a committee that advises a major chunk of what you are asking for, the tendency is to say 'Good, at least they agreed in principle,'" Harrison says. "The other thing is that it goes 50, 60, 70 percent of where you want it to go, but in the right atmosphere you might want to push...
...lost a good chunk of our power, really, our ability to score goals," Harvard Coach Carole Klein felder said. "What I'll try to do is take some of our defense players and make them attack players and hope that will balance...
...pleaded with him to stop. It seemed he was going around again just for the money (a stream of failed investments has him at public loggerheads with his agent) or maybe for the curtain calls at all the final stops (testimonials have included a motorcycle in Milwaukee and a chunk of Boston's parquet floor...