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...looking for a bit more pampering, the Kasbah recently opened a cozy three-guest-room lodge, the first of its kind in the park, where host Omar welcomes hikers with a hearty handshake and a basin of rose water. A simple refuge overlooking a traditional village of flat-topped mud and stone houses, it was a perfect overnight stop on a two-day hike into and out of the Azzaden Valley, where the bracing Atlas air felt like Drano on our clogged city lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Find it in the Atlas | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...vast mountain desert bowl, before returning to lunch at Samra, a candlelit guest douar (Berber dwelling) run by an energetic Swiss woman and a local female staff. The vegetable tagine and coriander-spiced eggplant was outstanding. Six hours later, I was back in Paris, my boots still spattered with mud, my hands smelling faintly of rose water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Find it in the Atlas | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...wartime India, en route to Britain from naval duty, British architect Laurie Baker met Mahatma Gandhi, who challenged him to return after the war to help house India's poor. In 1945, Baker did. Using mud, brick and other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...first marathon was very interesting. I woke up, and it was pouring rain. The streets of the city were flooded ankle deep; there was ankle deep mud,” Conroy recalls. “This continued the whole day. By the end of [the race] you’re hypothermic. You’re absolutely freezing...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharing a Room, Sharing a Race | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...beat the reader over the head with a political message, but rather a moving description of an army life reminiscent of the Vietnam War—filled with drug use and instructions to ignore the safety on a gun. One soldier even imitates Rambo, covering his face with mud and asking to take a rebel village by himself. For Beah, who describes the world through a fish-eye lens, the devil is in such details. But Beah has taken upon himself a topic worthy of aerial photography. Even though Beah has left the big-picture politics out, the reader cannot...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Giving the Numbers a Face | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

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