Word: pyramidal
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...hectares) of land. A 21-story farm is expected to cost about $84 million to build. That's a lot of cabbage to grow some lettuce, which is perhaps why the first tower in the works is in Las Vegas. In a city that already has a giant pyramid and mini Eiffel Tower, why not a modern Hanging Gardens of Babylon...
...decorated with yellow orchids - and surrounded by 2,000-year-old statues of Roman emperors, including a naked Julius Caesar - the guests dined on asparagus soufflé and veal noisettes before the grand finale: a charity auction and a Duran Duran concert held under the Louvre's landmark glass pyramid. The evening raised $2.7 million...
...with 19 staffers. And the Louvre is about to launch a U.S.-style endowment fund - the first in France - using the money from the Abu Dhabi deal to ensure it can finance a bevy of ambitious projects in the future, including one that would revamp the entrance under the pyramid to make it easier for visitors to access the museum and get their bearings...
...world are starved of cash? A few days after Cason Thrash's party, one of the attendees, Max Blumberg, a wealthy Floridian who made his money in lighting, sits in his exquisitely decorated Paris pied-à-terre opposite the Tuileries gardens, with a view of I.M. Pei's pyramid, and provides the answer. "The name of the Louvre has magical powers in the world of art," he says. "We don't look at it as France and America. The great world museums are global enterprises for all people." And then of course, there's Loyrette, constantly on their case...
...financial and environmental bill for a century of runaway growth and exploitation is coming due. The housing bust has exposed a human pyramid scheme - an economy that relied on a thousand newcomers a day, too many of them construction workers, mortgage bankers, real estate agents and others whose livelihoods depended on importing a thousand more newcomers the next day. And the elaborate water-management scheme that made southern Florida habitable has been stretched beyond capacity, yo-yoing between brutal droughts and floods, converting the Everglades into a tinderbox and a sewer, ravaging the beaches, bays, lakes and reefs that made...