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...more accurately, he was a guy who was shaking off the molting exoskeleton of Some Dude—and I’d said one word to him. But the larger truth at hand was yes, he had evolved before my very eyes—like a snazzily-dressed caterpillar, or perhaps some kind of Pokemon—into something more. It was startling...
...concern. Wen accepted the 19-gun salute he received on the South Lawn of the White House, then fired his own volley, gently reminding his hosts that China is the fastest-growing market for America's exports. There are U.S. companies that agree. Multinationals such as Motorola and Caterpillar have invested heavily in China and strongly oppose protectionism targeted at China...
...telling Wen that Tibet belongs to the Tibetans. My blonde-haired roommate from upstate New York has been a devout Tibetan Buddhist since childhood. One night at the dinner table sophomore year, she noticed some peculiar deposits on the mixed greens in her salad, which she recognized as caterpillar eggs. Instead of throwing them away as you or I would have done, she cared for them until they hatched into little green caterpillars, then morphed into fuzzy white-and-black moths who proceeded to make more caterpillar eggs. Eventually there were hundreds of caterpillars in our little room, too many...
...without propaganda. Hassan found something else in the camp: "Victims feel hate because they are passive," he says. "But by resisting, the people of Jenin camp acted. They weren't passive at all." Hassan focuses much of the movie on an Israeli soldier who drove one of the massive Caterpillar D9 bulldozers that demolished over 100 buildings in Jenin camp. In a chilling reconstruction, the soldier watches footage of the wreckage with Hassan. "I wanted to show how his nature became evil, how he was forced to internalize evil," he says. But Hassan also includes scenes of the soldier relaxing...
Young patrons of the lounges agree that part of the hookah's charm lies in its illicit associations. "It looks illegal," says Gypsy customer Armen Piskoulian, 18, with a grin, sucking on his hookah with the insouciance of the blue caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland, "but it's not." Others say it's not just stoner chic that has made the hookah a hit with the collegiate crowd. Post-9/11 headlines have also played a part. "They're hearing about Middle East this and Middle East that," says the Habibi's Mickey Fathi. "They can come here...