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Within several hours of the accident, repair workers removed the shards of glass which remained in the skylight and replaced three windows with plywood...
Towering pea-green plywood walls, with multiple openings and doors, provides a stunning backdrop for the black and white period costumes and striking lighting. Rarely have open doors looked so beautiful...
...broken-down fence between Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, California, stretches directly in front of David Gomez Rocha's plywood shack. Seven days a week the 28-year-old rises at 3 a.m. for a two-hour trip across the border to pick asparagus for $4.25 an hour. Granted amnesty in 1987, Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals...
Older Japanese homes are often perched a half-meter or so off the ground on wooden frames. ``It's as if the house is standing on stilts,'' says Scawthorn. ``In a quake it collapses, and the house comes down.'' Well-placed plywood braces, combined with steel-expansion bolts anchoring the house in a cement foundation, would keep the base intact...
...People go crazy because they can't get their bagels here," Akmakjian said. "They even open the plywood doors and say, 'Oh my gosh! Where are my bagels...