Word: sand
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...fleeing Afghans are being turned back from Pakistan while every conceivable kind of merchandise is getting through. Coming from Afghanistan is a dusty procession of trucks carrying Korean refrigerators, Japanese auto parts, Apple computers, toys, everything. Even golf clubs going God knows where. There are a lot of sand traps out here, but no fairways, that's for sure. I was witnessing the ebb and flow of global contraband, and nobody is better than smuggling than the Afghans. Their ravening entrepreneurial instincts are honed by centuries...
...desert. Mist rises from its center. Its petals ripple. Wait, it's not a petunia; it's a circle of people. People in chadors, the head-to-toe black coverings of orthodox Muslim women. It's not mist; it's dust. They're on their knees, digging in the sand. The scene--from Passage, Shirin Neshat's newest video, a collaboration with composer Phillip Glass--is starkly beautiful, revealing itself slowly, as in a glass, darkly...
...makes the whole world blind.” True enough, but can’t we achieve the same blindness by sticking our heads in the sand, hoping evil will just go away? This was the question Al Gore ’69 posed to students in a post-speech question and answer session at the ARCO Forum...
...tacky movie theaters of South Florida. Nothing can compare to my local Muvico. Not only does it boast plush stadium seating, full course dinners at the concession stand, and 24 whopping wide screens, it is also completely designed in an Egyptian theme. You buy tickets from in-between sand colored pillars complete with “cracks,” you walk over a mosaic of blue tiles meant to represent the Nile, not to mention the fact that there are hieroglyphics painted everywhere you look. The armchairs lift up so you can snuggle with a date, or if you?...
...matter how liberal and open the Sherwins were, they did not, under any circumstances, want their son having sex under their roof when they were in the house. "I did not want to encourage it, but I didn't want to bury my head in the sand," says Gary. "I took the viewpoint, if he's gonna do it, he's gonna...