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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...
...maybe buy a motorbike for myself." Nhan isn't the only one with high hopes. Set to begin production this month, the Bac Ninh factory is Canon's second in northern Vietnam, and a third is planned. Operating at full capacity, the plant can churn out four million laser printers a month. "We plan to make this the largest laser-printer factory in the world," said Yasuo Mitsuhashi, Canon's worldwide chief of printer production, during the factory's recent completion ceremony. "The future of this region is very bright...
...during daytime, putting the halls and chambers of the numeraries in a half-light. The blue carpeting on the floors is unmistakably institutional, and the aging hardwood furniture, oil paintings of ships at sea adorning the walls and wooden doorways with transoms give the place an almost clubby, old-world feel. This is the beating heart of Opus Dei. The chambers themselves, where a dozen numeraries and priests make their homes, are spartan and impeccably orderly. Hardly a scrap of paper is out of place. Each room has a wooden desk, a chair, a single bed, a bureau...
...Amartya Sen may have won a Nobel Prize for his work in welfare economics, but his son addresses the issue of social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper’s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort of literary...
...Maybe beauty is the final step to end violence and preach world peace after all." TAMAR GOREGIAN, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding...