`RACE' TEAM PENNILESS IN EGYPT WATCH TO SEE HOW MOMS DID.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer PALMDALE - Palmdale's two contestants in CBS' ``The Amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. Race'' are heading into next week's episode in last place. Self-proclaimed ``bowling moms'' Karen Heins and Linda Ruiz on Tuesday night's episode had to beg money from tourists to get around Egypt, but managed to survive the elimination that removed a team of brothers from the competition for $1 million. ``It was a really rough day,'' Heins told the camera with tears in her eyes. The moms had lost all their money in the previous week as punishment for arriving last at the segment's finish in Cairo. On Tuesday's episode, the women descended 350 feet into a room beneath the Great Pyramid Great Pyramid, the Cheops’ tomb, built 4,600 years ago, nearly 500 feet high, with bases 755 feet long. [Egypt. Arch.: Brewer Dictionary, 735] See : Wonders, Architectural to retrieve a clue, then traveled 400 miles to Luxor and the Karnak Temple. The women first unsuccessfully tried to sell an orange for 50 cents, then pleaded with a busload bus·load n. The number of passengers or the quantity of cargo that a bus can carry. Noun 1. busload - the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry of tourists who pulled up at the Sphinx sphinx (sfĭngks), mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra. The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, . ``We have no money for taxis taxis (tăk`sĭs), movement of animals either toward or away from a stimulus, such as light (phototaxis), heat (thermotaxis), chemicals (chemotaxis), gravity (geotaxis), and touch (thigmotaxis). so we are begging for money,'' said Ruiz to tourists. One man finally gives them $10 and other tourists donated as well. ``That was a boost for Karen and I,'' said Ruiz. ``After that we were like, we can do this.'' In reality, the race is over and the women are back at home in Palmdale. But by the terms of the competition, they can't talk about the show until it is over. At the Karnak temple, the moms ferried 10 sheep and goats across the Nile, then Ruiz had to search for a carved scarab in a simulated archaeological dig. The dig was almost their downfall as the other competitors found their scarabs and checked in at the final checkpoint (programming) checkpoint - Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other non-volatile storage, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. . As night fell, a discouraged Ruiz finally located the scarab and raced off to check in, in sixth place. Brothers Marshall and Lance realized they were the last to reach the dig site and gave up because Marshall's knees were causing him too much pain to continue. The next episode will air at 10 p.m. Tuesday on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . |
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