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...missing the last joint. "You put your pinkie on the board and chop it real hard," he says, swinging the blade down fast to within a few millimeters of his stump. "If you miss you can cut parts of other fingers." Gently placing the knife and board into a cardboard box, Cho grins: "I will use it again some...
Chikoka nods his head toward another woman sitting beside a stack of cardboard cartons. "We like better to go to them," he says. They are the "businesswomen," smugglers with gray-market cases of fruit and toilet paper and toys that they need to transport somewhere up the road. "They come to us, and we negotiate privately about carrying their goods." It's a no-cash deal, he says. "They pay their bodies to us." Chikoka shrugs at a suggestion that the practice may be unhealthy. "I been away two weeks, madam. I'm human. I'm a man. I have...
Gertrude sits upright on a donated bed in a cardboard shack in a rough Durban township that is now the compass of her world. Perhaps 10 ft. square, the little windowless room contains a bed, one sheet and blanket, a change of clothes and a tiny cooking ring, but she has no money for paraffin to heat the food that a home-care worker brings. She must fetch water and use a toilet down the hill. "Everything I have," she says, "is a gift." Now the school that owns the land under her hut wants to turn it into...
...translation of the word "tenda"). A few minutes later I see why so many concertgoers had hair that boasted their nationalistic pride - a few young workers in America Online T-shirts are doing the hair painting near the back of the crowd. One of the workers had a cardboard sheet with a triangle cut out in the middle, presumably allowing her to make a concertgoer a patriotic Brazilian and a perhaps unknowing advertisement for the American Online triangular corporate logo...
...there is a good deal about University Hall that's clearly not quite finished--evidenced by scores of cardboard boxes around the building that bear the name of the Lynn, Mass. moving company FAS used to transport administrators' belongings from their temporary offices...