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...million Number of people who have voted in an Internet campaign to choose seven "new" wonders of the world out of 21 historic buildings and monuments 2,200 Estimated years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and Middle East named the ancient seven wonders. Only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...Congress writes a massive farm bill that impacts the economy, trade, conservation and the American diet. In January the Department of Agriculture (USDA) offered "as a focus of debate" wide-ranging recommendations for how agricultural policies might support rather than subvert dietary guidelines spelled out in its new food pyramid, right. While debate on the details of the bill has traditionally been confined to lobbyists and farm-state politicians, this year the discussion is poised to go public. Among the topics to be addressed: How might government crop subsidies be changed...
Scott and Chugh's other innovation is Cosmos Ignite, the company they founded to market Mightylight. Inspired by C.K. Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, about the collective buying power of people earning a few dollars a day, they believe that capitalism--not charity--is the best way to address the needs of the Third World. So in November they began selling Mightylights for $45 each. The LED technology is so advanced, says Chugh, that "anyone in New York or Delhi would love one of these." Chugh, 38, hopes to release a $30 model soon...
...diptych.In the kitchen, a thin golden streak of light streams diagonally from a window in the top-right corner of the image. A window in the apothecary lets through light in the opposite direction from the top-left corner. Viewed together, the two shafts of light form an inverted pyramid that holds the two photographs in luminous harmony. Both interiors are decorated sparsely and attractively, with multicolored accessories. The ornamentation embedded in the walls and the structural beams suggest that not only are these photographs of the same house, but also of two sides of the same wall, a possibility...
...offering ice cream, and various concentrations stuffing prospects with stuffed-crust pizza, it’s pretty obvious that intellectual curiosity wasn’t the only thing these desperate departments were catering to. Given the fixation with food, FM’s nutrition experts created a concentration-guide pyramid to help students make healthy choices. Chosen sparingly—Endangered concentrations (where fats, oils and sweets go) • Folklore and Mythology • Women, Gender and Sexuality • Special Concentrations (you really are special) • Music • Statistics (less than...