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...accusations fly, few parties have managed to stay out of the mud...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard at the Trough | 12/6/2005 | See Source »

Today, that empire centers on one of the most innovative and environmentally sustainable factories in Bali. The factory walls, made of recyclable mud brick, are topped with thorny bougainvillea, rather than razor wire. John Hardy calls them a ?sustainable solution to the international problem of security.? Workshop roofs are covered with creeping passion-fruit vines to insulate the interiors from the brutal equatorial sun. Their fruit makes for a handy snack. Lotus ponds punctuate factory floors. ?If the fish die,? says Hardy, ?we know something is wrong.? The compound is designed to be light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hardy: Bali Guy | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...speaks in a never-ending stream of ideas, and if you can follow the dips and eddies and soaring visions of a man who has transformed his world to his exact standards, you may catch a glimpse of your own future. ?Can you imagine the potential of a mud-and-bamboo IT center?? he exclaims as he whirls around the packed-dirt floor of his new media office, jabbing fingers at bamboo-reinforced mud walls, woven grass ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking emerald rice paddies. ?This entire building comes to less than the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hardy: Bali Guy | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...MOVIE IS BETTER: There's a lot more of the grit of everyday life in 18th century rural Britain that was commonplace to Austen but is new to us. Animals wander through the house. There's mud everywhere. Also, it ends with a kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Vs. Movies | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...luxuries that are absent from other remote parts of Mali. There is a generator that lights up most of the houses every night. A water tower feeds water to several collection points. And television antennas bristle from the rooftops of two-story concrete houses - a far cry from the mud hut in which old Mamadou was raised. Villagers have even started dreaming about building a bridge across the river to connect Ambadedi to the nearest highway, says Sekou Drame, Mamadou's brother-in-law, as he escorts a Time reporter back to the wooden pirogue that will ferry him across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follow The Money | 11/26/2005 | See Source »

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