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...gentlemen of the Fly Club have noted with suspicion a recent reversion to hut-based dwelling among the Hebrews occupying the space between their Mt. Auburn St. palace and Plympton St. President Lowell may have to be informed, members of the club’s Purity Committee indicated...
...girl cradles him in her arms, trying to feed him cassava roots crushed into a paste. Another child lies limp on the floor, her belly bloated from hunger. Their mother, unable to produce breast milk, was, says Va Char, out in the jungle searching for food. Outside the hut lies another child, too weak too pull himself out of the dirt...
...Downstream in Bangladesh, a Wiscon-sin-size delta of 250 rivers, half of the capital, Dhaka, is under water. Thirty million people are in distress nationwide; nearly 500 people and 55,000 cows have died from drowning, disease or bites from snakes crowding the dry land. In her hut in eastern Dhaka, 20-year-old garment factory worker Rahela Khatoon chained her two-year-old son to a bamboo pole to save him from a black tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat...
...dorm has been claimed by a group of eight local high schoolers, so I follow the Model T of the small man in the over-worn sweater and slight facial hair down to the only other thing he has available: “the hut.” It has two lovely single beds, a gas stove, sink, fire place and stacks of wood. I run my hands over the walls to be sure the mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled...
...getting it going for a good three hours while I cook, eat and clean after my dinner (plain pasta boiled with garlic and peanut butter spread over my four remaining meusli bars—mmm!). I manage in the process to go through not only every log in the hut but every stick, twig or leaf in a 10-meter area outside...