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...development, Chyau, a native of Taiwan, and So, a native of Hong Kong, began thinking about starting a social enterprise last March. Chyau and So say they were inspired by Indian economist C.K. Prahalad’s 2002 article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which suggested that doing business with the world’s poorest 4 billion people can be profitable to the firms and beneficial to the poor.“A lot of the case studies we learned are from India,” says Chyau...
Visoko, Bosnia, might be home to the Eighth Wonder of the World, or so its residents hope. Researchers last week excavated geometrically cut stones from a hill near the town--apparently the building blocks of the first ancient step pyramid ever found in Europe. Archaeologist Semir Osmanagic estimates the pyramid is 722 ft. high--a third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza--and was built about 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilization. Other experts are skeptical. "More likely," says UCLA archaeologist Willeke Wendrich, "this is a case of Europeans around 6 A.D. with...
...where the streets hum with university student life. You'll cross the Tiber by the Sublicio Bridge. Before reaching the final stop near the National Gallery of Modern Art, the bus passes such landmarks as the Colosseum, the ancient church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, and the 1st century pyramid built as a tomb by a magistrate with dreams of grandeur. Cost: $1.20, expires after 75 min. Journey time: about...
DIED. Helen Ullrich, 83, founder of the international Society for Nutrition Education, who agitated for labels with nutritional information and introduced a food pyramid at a 1988 global conference, four years before the U.S. Department of Agriculture published its original standard Food Guide Pyramid; in Berkeley, Calif...
...morning touring the Chichen-Itza Mayan archeological ruins, a stop that had been added to his itinerary after his failure to drop by the Taj Mahal had stirred so much comment during his recent trip to India. He sportingly wore an untucked, white, tropical-weight shirt and climbed a pyramid at the behest of his host, Mexican President Vicente Fox. They were joined by the third summiteer, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. They all met briefly with cameras, and Harper spoke in French at first. ?I can repeat the same thing quickly, if you don?t mind,? he added...