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Along the Rhine in 1945, barbed-wire fences enclosed tightly packed masses of German prisoners of war. Without tents, they dug crude foxholes and hoarded scraps of cardboard against the bitter spring weather. Without food or water, some resorted to eating grass and drinking their urine. Many died of dysentery, pneumonia, exhaustion, brought on by the cruel neglect of their American captors...
...casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...
Ronald Reagan is generally regarded as the most popular President in recent history. But according to Washington photographers who sell pictures of people posing with life-size cardboard cutouts of the Presidents, George Bush has surpassed the Gipper. One day last week, for every 25 people who asked to pose with the Bush cutout, four opted for the cardboard Reagan...
...vast tracts in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Last April the Japan Tropical Forest Action Network, a small but feisty environmental group based in Tokyo, presented the giant Marubeni Corp., one of the world's largest importers of tropical hardwoods, with a mock award: a cardboard chain saw for winning the Grand Prix for Tropical Forest Destruction...
...first night at Harvard, after meeting my roommates and drinking far too much beer, I threw a cardboard box, on which I had written "Derek Bok Sucks," out of my fourth floor Holworthy window. My roommates, who had heard only good things about our president, were shocked...