Word: pyramidally
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...columns, the floors above could still hang from the trusses. But engineering isn't just what military strategists call a force enhancer. In the right hands, it's also a path to new kinds of beauty. Just look at Piano's diaphanous London Bridge Tower, a slender glass pyramid that forms a glistening stalagmite against the old city's skyline. The MOMA show is co-curated by Guy Nordenson, a well-known structural engineer, and Terence Riley, the museum's chief curator of architecture and design, who says he decided to do it after seeing the first Spider-Man. ("That...
Nestle's experiences with the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the CDC, and the Department of Agriculture, which controls the food pyramid, have convinced her that responsibility for messages on nutrition should be moved someplace less subject to political pressure. She is not alone in thinking so. In May, Senators Ted Kennedy and Peter Fitzgerald proposed a bill that would transfer authority to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science. "This legislation would give us a new general in the war on obesity," says Illinois Republican Fitzgerald...
...agree that the American consumer needs to be better educated about nutrition. We heard a variety of ways to do this: PSA?s, programs in schools, better labeling, the USDA?s dietary guidelines and food pyramid...
...disappointed that his department?s initiatives were mainly small, low-budget steps, such as underfunded PSA programs, rather than big well-funded actions. And we just heard that there?s only a pathetic $2.7 million budget behind the department responsible for giving us the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and Food Pyramid program...
...coaches and other sports markets supply most of the company's funds. In France golf pros have taken to Dartfish. In one British school district, gym teachers dissect their students' badminton swings with the program. "With television and the Olympic sports, we are starting at the top of the pyramid," says Bergonzoli. "Step by step, we'll work our way down and tap into the millions of coaches and athletes who will want this software." A Little League coach who needs the basics can get Dartfish for $500. The pros dish out $5,000 for a more advanced version...