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...aspiring tourist mecca, the Oriental Buddha Kingdom Theme Park in the lush mountains of Leshan is doing a pretty woeful job. Its main attraction, a 37-meter replica of one of the famed Bamiyan buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is mysteriously covered by a huge cloth, with only its giant feet poking out. When tourists try to approach the statue, security guards shoo them away. Instead, would-be guides shove pictures of the park's lesser draws under the few visitors' noses?perhaps a tour of a couple of fake, mildewy buddhas or a trip to a viewing...
...sport about it. Harry, I want my college life to be like it was 50 years ago, before even you were a student here. I imagine the Adams House Library on a Friday evening, the room smoky and full of young men clutching cloth-bound books and fountain pens poised to scribble notes in the margins. Their mental paths were circuitous and paved with discarded ideas. Or they were sipping brandy out of monogrammed flasks concealed in their blazers and debating whether to go carouse. Not that student life was better, but I suspect it was less two-faced; these...
...fumbled in his pockets for some source of source of personal information. Passing a police officer, he joined a line of men that wound through the JFK building’s lobby between cloth tapes...
Next time you change your toilet paper, take a closer look at the empty roll. The world is filled with products that rely on the indispensable yet banal cardboard tube—tape, saran wrap, cloth and, of course, toilet paper. Yet for most people, cardboard tubes are simply collateral damage destined for the garbage can. Not so for architect Shigeru Ban, who sees them as the newest building material...
...small brands also have more elastic production and manufacturing schedules that allow stores more flexibility when ordering and displaying merchandise. Denim brands like Habitual and Paper, Denim & Cloth can turn around a new product in a matter of weeks. And an up-and-comer from London like Alice Temperley will happily put together a little table display on the ground floor of Bendel's on any given Saturday...