Word: pyramids
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...three years, Clemmons, 42, who runs a hair-care-products company and has no formal scientific training, has devoted her spare time and more than $10,000 of her own money to solving everyone's favorite engineering enigma: how the Egyptian pyramids were built. Over the years, researchers have experimented with everything from ramps to levers in failed attempts to move counterparts of the three-ton pyramid stones...
GIZA, EGYPT The Pyramids A helicopter will place a golden 30-ft.-high pyramid atop the biggest pyramid during Act 2 of an electronic opera --$15 to $400 --50,000 expected...
There are certain things we assume when we wake up every morning. The sun will rise in the east, 100 tourists will rub John Harvard's foot and someone will be shooting hoops under Lavietes Pavilion's glass pyramid...
Still, the majority of dietitians and doctors remain wary of low-carb diets, favoring the traditional carb-heavy food pyramid with a reduction of calories and an increase in exercise. They aren't getting many book contracts. "Most Americans don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, and now you have diets like Atkins that say don't eat sweet potatoes, don't eat carrots, don't eat corn," says Franca Alphin, administrative director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more...
...nutritional guidelines emphasizing a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, like the food pyramid, have been around for years...