Word: towered
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...Bagan balloon flies freely over the spires and stupas, www.balloonsoverbagan.com. It is able to do so because Bagan has been refused World Heritage status as a result of ham-fisted attempts made to restore some of its ancient structures with modern materials. Other developments, including an unsightly viewing tower and a nearby golf course, have also been controversial. Perhaps it's just as well that their impact is diminished when seen from the sky. Bagan's beauty is undeniable during these spectacular, 45-minute flights...
...National Guard Association in Washington, Bush revealed new details about a foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian and two Southeast Asian countries had helped arrest all four cell leaders planning the attack, which was designed as a follow up to 9/11 and originally revealed...
...Benet Magnuson ’06 towers over his roommates by a head—and then some.One roommate lounges on the sofa in a faded purple Cornell sweatshirt. The others recline by Magnuson on the bed, one sporting a black and white ensemble with a necklace of bulky black beads, the other a teal cardigan over a flimsy floral top. Though stylishly dressed, the Mather residents are a bit limited in the time-honored rooming tradition of clothes borrowing. In this suite, Magnuson is the only male. After two years of negotiating red tape and regulations, he finally convinced...
...gene splicing and more. According to a 2003 National Academies report, no fewer than 19 multibillion-dollar industries resulted from fundamental research in information technology alone. Yet, says David Patterson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery, "people have this idea of academic research as this fuzzy, ivory-tower stuff that probably doesn...
From a room looking out onto the Eiffel Tower, Galison wrote that he is drinking “about 10 times more coffee than is good for me” while working as a visiting professor at L’Ecole Normale Supeieure and L’Ecole des Mines...