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...small group of protesters climbed a bus stop shelter covered with stickers and black-marker slogans and posed angrily while their friend snapped a group photo. Another crowd, decked in all-black outfits and masks, sat on a high concrete wall, looking down into a streets that still smelled like aerosol spray paint, watching work crews blast graffiti off buses and buildings...
...ascent you have a clear goal ahead, and you get happier and happier as you keep pressing upward, one switchback after another. You overtake other climbers. You feel great. At a trailside shelter you run into teenagers weeping into an emergency phone. Two girls trying to convince a park ranger that they really, really, really, really can't go another step and need to be airlifted out. Two well-fed American girls in nice clothes, both ambulatory. One of them sobs in a well-practiced way, and if you weren't here to see her, you'd think...
...lost his car and condominium, and ended up staying at a Jamaica Plain homeless shelter for over six years...
...arbitrarily used them as proof of his competence and as shield of his abuses. Thanks to Mahuad, Harvard's name has become almost a joke in Ecuador, a situation that is aggravated by the fact that Harvard is providing shelter to the worst president we ever...
...material's load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard "improved wood"), he thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated 34-ply tubes to build a community hall and houses. Working with the U.N., Ban has shipped paper log houses to Turkey and Rwanda. "Refugee shelter has to be beautiful," he says. "Psychologically, refugees are damaged. They have to stay in nice places...