Word: claddings
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Afternoon in Caroni Swamp finds fanny-pack-clad, zoom-lens-toting tourists squeezed into pirogues motoring through the wetlands to catch a glimpse of the scarlet ibis, Trinidad's national bird. At sundown, some 10,000 of the vermillion-feathered, migratory waterfowl return from days spent in Venezuela, just nine miles away, to roost in the mangrove swamp south of Port of Spain. The window is brief, as a tropical sundown can seem as swift as a blanket thrown over a birdcage, but the ibis do not disappoint. In the day's last light, pack after pack of ibis...
...devil--or demonized figure--it knows. But TV abhors a rerun, and the challenge would be to make it fresh. As for Obama, the network is still figuring out how to palatably antagonize him. While the Jeremiah Wright story was a gift--Fox turned him into a dashiki-clad screen saver--Fox's Chris Wallace embarrassingly chastised the hosts of Fox and Friends on-air for "distorting" Obama's words. And Bill O'Reilly caught flak for using the phrase "lynching party" in a critique of Michelle Obama...
...Iraqis digested the news of their government's major military offensive against the Mahdi Army in Basra, there were mixed reactions. There was anger and resentment among poor, long-oppressed Shi'ites, like the 2 million residents of Baghdad's massive Sadr City slum, for whom the black-clad Mahdi militia are heroes providing protection from Sunni terrorists and civic services like medical clinics and free schools. Their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, has called for nationwide protests, and his supporters have clashed with Iraqi and American forces in several cities. Security forces are bracing for massive protests in Sadr City...
They found a way to do that with the Porter House. A SHoP-designed condo in Manhattan's ever more lustrous Meatpacking District, it consists of a 10-story zinc-clad upper portion with an irregular and eye-catching window pattern, which is built on top of and within an existing six-story masonry warehouse. It was the SHoP architects who discovered the old warehouse. Then they went to Jeffrey M. Brown Associates, a Philadelphia-based developer and former client, to broach the idea of partnering with him to purchase and transform the property. That architects-as-developers business model...
During a Crimson Key Society tour, a crimson-clad guide delivers this fact: “Harvard President Abbot Lawrence Lowell once said that the Harvard undergraduate should know ‘a little bit of everything, and something well...