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They invented democracy, philosophy, and science. They created drama, literature, and architecture that still take our breath away. And they did it all in less than 200 years.
This is the epic saga of the people who built the empire that changed the world forever. The Greeks, crucible of civilization. An empire's special on PBS.
Egypt, 1500 B.C. You've spent months sculpting a massive obelisk out of a single shaft of solid granite. It weighs 50 tons. Now your pharaoh wants you to stand it upright at the door to his temple using only wood, rope, and sand. Lots and lots of sand.
Let's see how they did it when Nova reveals the secrets of lost empires.
I'm Paul Kangas with a business news brief. Pfizer has won its fight to buy out Warner Lambert in a 90 billion dollar takeover that will create the world's second largest pharmaceutical company. Warner stockholders will get two and three quarter shares of Pfizer for each of their shares, which today works out to about a $101 value.
The stock rose two and a half to 97 and a quarter. Meanwhile, American home product stock rose two and a half to 48, partly because the company will be paid $1.8 billion to sever its merger contract with Warner Lambert. Wall Street returned to its divergent ways as the blue chip down industrial average fell 58 points, while the high tech-laden Nasdaq index vaulted 77 points to its second straight record closing high. The American exchange index rose just over one point.
Tomorrow, an update on investing in the biotech sector. For more financial news, tune into the Nightly Business Report weekdays on this public television station.
In a remote desert canyon, they came to build an American pyramid, a colossus of concrete across the raging Colorado.
Trucks, man, noise, thunder, dust. Everything is just harsh, harsh, harsh.
Forever change the West.
Hoover Dam.
On the American experience.
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