Word: bamboos
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...Mexican jungle in 1986 and I came across a truck with this big tarp on it and I offered the driver $70 for it - that's what I had in my pocket - and we took it off the truck and we strung it up between two tall bamboo trees and held it taut with the help of two smaller palm trees and that's how I painted it in the jungle ? " Later he added, "I always tell young painters, 'Paint outside! If it's cold, wear a coat!'" What the crowds loved most was a quality in his booming voice...
...hear the soldiers tell it, they didn't stand a chance. Their attackers?roughly 100 in number?slipped into the army camp through a thicket of bamboo and fruit trees, armed with machine guns. The barracks were hopelessly vulnerable: almost 300 soldiers were asleep, while the rest of the battalion was either temporarily stationed elsewhere or on leave. And the sleeping soldiers were not even a fighting force but engineers building roads and canals in the province of Narathiwat in Thailand's deep south. When the shooting began, at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 4, the soldiers awoke with...
They line the dusty roads outside the tiny villages of China's Henan province, several hours' drive from Beijing--mounds of dirt funneled into crudely shaped cones, like a phalanx of earthen bamboo hats. To the uninitiated, they look like a clever new way of turning over fields--an agricultural innovation, perhaps, meant to increase crop yields. But the locals know the truth. Buried under the pyramids, which now number in the thousands, are their mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters and cousins, all victims of AIDS. Like silent sentries, the dirt graves are a testament to China's worst-kept...
...Night Three: The crowd swells to 1,000. Lever spots the croc and heaves his personally designed, nonlethal bamboo harpoon. He misses. He then shines his flashlight over the water and thinks he catches the red reflection of the croc's eyes. He's mistaken: they are bobbing Coke cans...
...sandwiches have doubled since the switch. KFC also discovered that side dishes that work in the West, such as coleslaw and mashed potato, aren't popular in China. The company is currently replacing its traditional sides with seasonal vegetables, including a salad of shredded carrot, fungus and bamboo shoot. Other items tailored for the mainland include congee (rice porridge) and a soup made of spinach, egg and tomato. "We live here, we're Chinese. We see what people prefer," says Ben Koo, KFC vice president of new concepts in Shanghai...