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...Nobert lives with the consequences of such mutual intransigence. Mullaitivu, at the end of a spit off Sri Lanka's northeast coast, was once a village of red-tiled bungalows, purple bougainvillea and powdery white shores, where Tamil boatmen lived by shrimp-fishing and smuggling coconut whisky to India. But when civil war broke out in 1983 between the Sinhalese-dominated government to the south and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) based in the north and east, Mullaitivu wound up on the front line. The village fell first to the Sri Lankan army. Then in 1996 the Tigers...
Today, that empire centers on one of the most innovative and environmentally sustainable factories in Bali. The factory walls, made of recyclable mud brick, are topped with thorny bougainvillea, rather than razor wire. John Hardy calls them a ?sustainable solution to the international problem of security.? Workshop roofs are covered with creeping passion-fruit vines to insulate the interiors from the brutal equatorial sun. Their fruit makes for a handy snack. Lotus ponds punctuate factory floors. ?If the fish die,? says Hardy, ?we know something is wrong.? The compound is designed to be light...
Wandering past LSU’s monumental class halls and pink bougainvillea blossoms, Clark was optimistic about her coming semester...
...computerized accounts of stock. Always a plant lover, he shrugs off the unlikeliness of the job. "I didn't compare it to what I had done in my professional life," he says. Platt enjoys the perks: he and his wife Mary, 76, have just planted a good selection of bougainvillea, hibiscus and gardenias at home. "I knew I'd enjoy being with the people who worked there," says "Doctor John," as his colleagues call him. A friend who already worked in the garden shop suggested he join the team, he explains, and "I was on the lookout for something...
yoram barak brushes past some purple bougainvillea and unlocks the heavy door to one of the psychogeriatric wards at Abarbanel. It's a hut built by the British army to handle mentally disturbed World War II soldiers. "If you'd been stuck in this place for 50 years, you wouldn't be doing very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move...