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Inside a glass pyramid, yellow, black and orange fish mingle with greenery in a bubbling pool...
DeFrancesco and six other officers then formeda human pyramid so that they could gain access tothe burning building's first-floor roof, where onewoman was stranded. The police were able toextricate the woman without injury either to heror the officers...
Since women naturally manage a staff from the "center of a web" instead of "the top of a pyramid," they are effective leaders in today's increasingly democratic business world, a United Nations executive said yesterday at the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Leadership Project Conference...
...believe their work at Caracol, in present-day Belize, also shows that escalating warfare was largely responsible for that ancient city's abrupt extinction. Among the evidence they cite: burn marks on buildings, the uncharacteristically unburied body of a six-year-old child lying on the floor of a pyramid, and an increase in war imagery on late monuments and pottery. "Of course we found weapons too," says Arlen...
...preparing food. At the end of the day the family would reconvene at home, where the head of the household might perform a quick bloodletting, the central act of piety, accompanied by prayers and chanting to the ancestors. Days that were not devoted to agriculture might be spent building pyramids and temples. In exchange for their toil, the people expected to attend royal marriages and ceremonies marking important astrological and calendrical events. At these occasions the king might perform a bloodletting, sacrifice a captive or preside over a ball game -- the losers to be beheaded, or sometimes tied...