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...ordering up global mayhem at the click of a mouse is more than a little ludicrous. Yes, the various networks of Islamist terror have made full use of the possibilities presented by technology and globalization. But few serious intelligence professionals believe Bin Laden is the puppet-master atop a pyramid structure of terror cells. It's really not that simple, but personalizing the threat - while it distorts both the nature of the problem and the remedy - is a time-honored tradition. Before Bin Laden, the face of the global terror threat against Americans belonged to the Palestinian radical Abu Nidal...
June 7, 1974: Architect I. M. Pei promises to scale down plans for the JFK library, eliminating the 85-foot glass pyramid and the two 350-seat theaters. The changes were made in response to the outrage by community members against the large size of the library...
...them geniuses today [THE PARENT TRAP, April 30]. I think we all would have grown to be happier adults if we had had enough time to play when we were children--and we wouldn't have become so obsessed with getting our children to the top of the moneymaking pyramid. There are more important things in life than being rich, like having fun. MAKELLA CRAELIUS Somerset...
...Bloom” opens the door to all sorts of bold floral arrangements. In one of the most effective arrangements, created by Susan Kaplan of the Beth Shalom Garden Club, three thick, pitch-black palm spades interspersed with pink bird-of-paradise form a sharp, pyramid-like construction. The angles echo the shape of Alexander Archipenko’s sculpture “Turning Torso,” a simple abstracted nude in blue bronze...
...talking with or reading to children. These specialists agree that the only thing shown to optimize children's intellectual potential is a secure, trusting relationship with their parents. Time spent cuddling, gazing and playing establishes a bond of security, trust and respect on which the entire child-development pyramid is based. "We have given social and emotional development a back seat," says UCLA's Tyler, "and that's doing a great disservice to kids and to our society...