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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...
Waly Diabira pats the cover on his bed in the cramped fifth-floor room he shares with two men in a red-brick dormitory building for immigrants near Paris' Left Bank. "My father slept on this same bed, in this same room, for many years," he says. In 1950, his father, Mamadou Diabira, left their tiny village in Mali and caught a steamboat to Europe, where he worked as a street cleaner in Paris for about 25 years, receiving a certificate of thanks signed by then mayor Jacques Chirac. Waly, a 32-year-old building cleaner, only got to know...
...Aiban mountain ranges at 2,200 m above sea level?the altitude ensures a gentle climate?and neither natural forces or invaders have leveled its 103 mosques, 14 hammams and 6,000 houses built before the 11th century. Its six- to eight-story tower houses of lime-washed mud brick could lay claim to being the world's first high-rises...
...motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse of the Yellow Brick Road. Though the film is being marketed as a comedy (if one that doesn’t shy away from the occasional coffin-encased gun slinger), “The Ice Harvest” is much murkier and bloodier than the trailers suggest. It evokes both the cold moral grayness...
...magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Its six- to eight-story tower houses of lime-washed mud brick could lay claim to being the world's first high-rises. At the city's heart is the Suq al-Milh, or salt market. It's a good spot for buying oasis dates or acacia honey, or watching locals bargain over khat, a narcotic leaf. If haggling in other markets...