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Melia Tabono lies semiconscious on a cot, her swollen face glistening with sweat and sand. An intravenous tube drips saline solution into her veins, as a friend, Thelma Nonatura, a fellow Filipino, desperately fans a piece of cardboard to combat the 95 degrees heat. Six weeks ago, Tabono, 38, worked as a seamstress in Kuwait City. Now she is among tens of thousands of refugees struggling to survive in a strip of scorched desert between Iraq and Jordan. "Our lives have been destroyed," murmurs Nonatura. "I can't feel anything anymore...
...protesters waved banners, blew whistles and pointed large cardboard fingers inscribed with with the word "shame." They shouted slogans such as "Gay youth under attack. What do we do? Act up like that" and "Louis Sullivan thanks a bunch! People die while you eat lunch...
...crisis in the gulf propelled the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a rare sort of fame: a life-size cardboard figure beside which Washington tourists can stand and be photographed with an arm around Powell. He joins Presidents, First Ladies and Ollie North...
...bright June morning, all the locked-up normalities come tumbling into the streets of Nablus -- the fruits and vegetables, the figs and grape leaves and fragrant mint, the baklava with its hovering bees, the butchered goats and lambs and live chicks in cardboard boxes, rectangles of softly agitating yellow fluff. The narrow alleys of the Casbah fill with the smells and bustle of marketing after curfew. Palestinian life in the steep-sided hills of the occupied West Bank makes one of its dreamlike passages back to the state of mind in which, for a moment, it feels normal...
Overnight a shrine rose at the place where he was killed, a lace-covered altar laden with plastic flowers in vases, Madonna and Christ icons, and a photograph of the boy. Above it a cardboard plaque read, S. DUFFY MURDERED BY RUC AUGUST 9TH, 1989. Along a wall near Duffy's house, someone wrote in giant white letters, 20 YEARS ON AND STILL MURDERING CHILDREN. His funeral, a nightmarishly slow procession, overflowed with grief...