Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pyramids and thereabouts, where he has worked for more than 20 years and where plenty remains to be discovered. Then, three years ago, the eminent archaeologist, who also serves as Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments, got wind of a new, unsuspected burial site at the Bahariya Oasis, some 230 miles southwest of Cairo. When he arrived, recalls Hawass, "one of the tomb ceilings had fallen in and the sun shone through it. I went in and looked at the mummies in the rays of the sun. All I could see was gold...
...been, they are just the beginning. Hawass estimates that the cemetery covers several square miles and may contain up to 10,000 mummies. The section now being excavated, he believes, belonged to the middle class; eventually, tombs of wealthier people may turn up. And once this huge and pristine site is fully explored, Hawass and his colleagues expect to have an unprecedented window into Egyptian life in a provincial town under Roman rule...
...caught up with Zaitz's vision, helped along by new technology. In just the few years since Zaitz bought his first modem, analysts estimate that close to 35% of the nation's 3 million farmers have gone online. COW has evolved into Farms.com one of the first e-business sites to support real-time farm auctions. Farmers who visit the site can buy and sell entire lots of cattle via digital video feeds and still images. They can also get chemicals, grain and feed commodities online. On average, says Zaitz, Farms.com has more than 40,000 unique visitors a month...
...there's Bluefly. Not even a year old, Bluefly.com is already a leading Internet retailer, and it specializes in the $27 billion-a-year discounted-designer-clothing market. In the past three months, more than 5 million bargain hunters looking for easier ways to shop 24/7 have visited the site, many attracted by the company's ads in magazines like Vogue and GQ or prompted by links from Women.com AOL and other popular Net portals. Bluefly's CEO, Ken Seiff, increased gross sales 140% in the past quarter to $1.1 million and attracted a $10 million investment from Soros Private...
...Democrats, would prohibit any profit-making from the films and subject violators to prison terms of up to five years. "This is something so horrible and despicable that it has to end," Gallegly said of films such as Vicious in Las Vegas and Mistress Di: Princess of Death. One site, perhaps anticipating a crackdown, has already moved on to a new fetish: a woman sitting on a Sony Walkman...