Word: patchwork
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...generation, had such happy results. Wherever you go, you see people inventing jobs for themselves, selling bats at a roadside stand, for instance, or directing traffic for tips. On Bangka, men mine tin from the coastal seabed, employing motor-powered pumps to vacuum the sea floor onto patchwork floating trays in which they search for their prize. More often, a living wage, or the promise of one, is thought to exist elsewhere, which is why there is a constant stream of migrant workers flowing across Indonesia. Earlier, on the north coast of Java, among colorful, undulant boats sardined within...
...cultural cues from myriad psychedelic compass points: Ibiza, Goa, San Francisco. Hopping trains into the city from all over Japan, these teens and twentysomethings flock for the express purpose of flaunting some of the wackiest Mad Hatter outfits east of Fillmore West. They get gussied up in sidewalk dragging, patchwork skirts under military jackets, or blood red, cropped kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like lips. The kids don't know it, but many of their looks are '60s People's Park through a rave-culture hula hoop...
...years ago it was little more than an African dream: a patchwork of game reserves cutting across national borders and cultural boundaries, opening vast areas of the continent to the exciting new world of ecotourism. Now the vision of Peace Parks is being realized. In southern Africa one is already in business, several more are on track and by the end of this year the gates will open on one of the world's biggest...
...Deal and the growth of a young conservatives’ movement alongside the emergence of Students for a Democratic Society and sit-in activists. The book also gives an excellent analysis of the political geography of the time (who the most important operatives were, the scattered patchwork of support it took to win a national campaign and how everything was viewed through a lens of Communist paranoia) while harkening back to an era when the two parties’ conventions actually mattered, fistfights...
...What the Atlantic dispute over missile defense reveals is a philosophical chasm that may prove impossible to bridge. Left-tilting European governments invest real significance in the patchwork of multilateral treaties and institutions that constitute a ?global governance? system. But American conservatives, such as those in Bush?s coterie, chafe at such constraints on unilateral action. Europeans believe global warming and genetically modified food are threats worthy of diplomatic attention; Bush?s national security team hardly believes such concerns exist. And the E.U. is far more committed to the United Nations and international development: European countries collectively spend three times...