The company he took over was a wreck: ancient recipes, a barely functioning call center, nine long-suffering franchisees.
Without giving too much away, a near-extinct ancient race makes a cameo experience.
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Since young bones are fragile, such a complete specimen of an ancient infant is a startling find.
She still treasures the moment when a piece of the past, an object of people's daily lives in ancient Athens, or a marker mentioned in an ancient text, is revealed and she's able to bring it back into the light.
Now he's sitting quietly reading a book on ancient Greece while nearby a girl with cerebral palsy is learning how to make "snow angels" with her body on the floor.
It was here that two years ago archeologists announced the discovery of a large stone which Buddhists believe was placed by an ancient king as a monument to the birthplace of the Buddha.
Right now a great and ancient civilization is going through a time of tumult and transformation.
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"This one here, this is a coin from ancient Rome, " said a gray-haired gentleman, drawing out a dime-sized disc from his pocket.
Offers of cash caused a surge of dopamine in a tiny piece of neural machinery called the nucleus accumbens--a structure as ancient as backbones that plays a key role in addiction.
Crowds will be less of a problem at Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska, where vintage cars replace the ancient stones in a piece-by-piece replica of the Salisbury Plain landmark.
Therefore, it came as a surprise to see an ancient object fetch such a huge price.
Just 45 minutes from Beirut is Byblos, a historic coastal city with stunning ancient Roman ruins and a well-preserved Crusader-era castle.
Many Chinese who wouldn't be caught dead without a BlackBerry think nothing of adding ancient herbal treatments to a regimen of Western drugs.
Marketplaces, be they Ebay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the New York Stock Exchange, a Middle Eastern souk or an ancient agora, share a common characteristic: They are forums that bring together buyers and sellers.
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On the other hand you have the Idrians, a warlike society of ancient creatures strictly bound to a deep militaristic code of ethics.
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Last week I popped over to Palo Alto airport in my Cessna flying carpet, sat in a corner at an ancient IBM computer and took a 60-question written quiz for my private pilot's instrument rating.
Getting Bangkok under my belt would have given me the opportunity to take a shore excursion to Ayutthaya, the ancient Thai capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, when we were in Bangkok, and the chance to knock Hanoi (and the Colonial-era Metropole Hotel) off my bucket list.
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In a mythical ancient Japan, the young warrior Ashitaka is thrown into a conflict between two powerful women.
Stop in at its Musee du Savon (Soap Museum) to see how the sudsy stuff is traditionally made, before continuing south to Tyre, a city rarely visited by tourists, whose ancient ruins make it a fascinating destination.
An ancient drawing of a gladiator has been carved into the rock, probably with a nail.
The task of estimating Earth's ancient climate, a discipline known as paleoclimatology, is a challenging one.
Both our recent and ancient history as a people is one continuous testament to this truth.
Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
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On the ancient shores of a country just 40 years in the making, it hardly seems too much to ask.
And there are, after all, few things more satisfying than converting an ancient enemy into a bosom friend.
Diogenes the Cynic wandered about ancient Athens carrying a lantern on his quest to find a single honest man.
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Buying as-is did mean accepting an ancient furnace, a cracked window and a leaking roof on the detached garage.
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And, in fact, ancient beer is a lot more similar to wine in its taste to a modern palate.
Recently Jews in synagogues around the world heard an ancient prophesy about a time of tribulation for the Christians.
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The ancient Greeks derived a structure for a speech for precisely this occasion.
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