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...first glance the poblaciones or shantytowns of Penalolen appear to be a desolate, stagnant world far from the bustling, metropolitan center. Small houses, shacks and lean-tos of cardboard and corregated tin crowd together along unpaved streets that turn to impassable floods of mud in the winter. Delinquents hang out on the highway edging the shantytowns, passing a joint and listening to salsa on a battered radio, casting hostile glances at passers...
...repairs his roof at dusk. With scarce resources, the shantytown dwellers must use innovation to survive. Shantytown residents often steal electricity and water by tapping into the public power lines and water conduits. Many make their living hawking candy, pens and umbrellas on buses or street corners. Others scavenge cardboard and discarded metal at night...
Harvard can harness this prestige-lust with life-sized cardboard cut-outs of its cultural icons. The endless parade of Yardgoers will gladly shell out 10 bucks for pictures of themselves kissing Rudenstine, draping their arms around John Kenneth Galbraith, rubbing Marty Feldstein's bald pate, giving Alan Dershowitz the finger...
...until last Saturday, Fogel had never played chess on a 20-foot by 20-foot canvas board. He had never used red and yellow pieces made of corrugated cardboard. And the pieces he had used had never approached his height...
...packages are more distinctive than the cardboard-wrapped plastic egg that has carried L'eggs panty hose for more than two decades. The catchy container and wide availability at drugstores and supermarkets helped make the super- stretchy, reasonably priced product the world's best-selling hosiery. But L'eggs, a division of Sara Lee, has decided to dump its plastic egg and switch to an all-cardboard package. One reason for the change is to reduce waste. While the L'eggs plastic egg is recyclable and is often used by customers for arts-and-crafts projects, the new box uses...