Word: pyramidal
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...group, led by Michael T. Giampaolo '00, spent all of Saturday afternoon constructing a replica of the Egyptian Sphinx--standing five feet tall and eight feet long. The sculpture is flanked on the left by a miniature pyramid and by an obelisk on the right...
...among African Americans and other minority groups--sought an injunction to block the release of the U.S. government's new dietary guidelines until they can be rewritten to include alternative sources of calcium, such as collard greens and kale. Not only is the federal menu--the so-called food pyramid--bad medicine, the group argued, but it is racist as well...
...USDA does mention such calcium alternatives as kale in its general guidelines, but not in its much touted food pyramid. The antimilk folks charge that when federally sponsored schools or day-care centers go beyond the pyramid, they risk losing funding. Watkins denies this, saying lactose-free milk is available...
...television or to major media. After all, according to Christopher D. H. Row, a resident tutor in art history and theology in Kirkland House, Egyptian pharaohs used to write over their predecessors' cartouches. Perhaps in response, in more modern times National Geographic magazine digitally moved a pyramid so the picture would fit on its front cover. Television has also been no stranger to image editing: Baseball stadiums sometimes replace local ads with national ones in the television coverage. But CBS' decision raises new questions of whether television can be trusted when what network executives think is "entertainment" might be what...
...SCAM SLAM Government agencies have taken action against some 600 Internet outfits, alleging that many are pyramid schemes posing as marketing companies, which require hefty investments from participants. Last month the FTC asked a judge to shut down 2Xtreme, which persuaded some 60,000 recruits to buy expensive marketing kits for New Age products. Their earnings were tied to developing "downlines," i.e., new recruits. For more info, visit www.consumer.gov...