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...There's no question about whom the villagers blame for their distress. At a refugee camp in a local outdoor market, where more than 2,000 people live in converted, tarp-covered stalls amid goats grazing contentedly on piles of garbage, graffiti makes their target clear: "Lapindo terrorist," one reads. The company provides food for everyone in the camp, along with services such as a medical clinic and a makeshift mosque. But the villagers are quick to recite a litany of complaints, from the quality of the rations to the health effects of the mud (though the government team says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wound in The Earth | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...shelter to avoid Allied bombs. In the tough economic times after the war's end, the surrounding Alps became Brabeck's playground. By age 10, he was climbing with ropes. As a teenager, he took off for hiking trips with his friend Hans Thomassen, with little more than a tarp and his mother's sandwiches. She recalls that "he was always an adventurer, just like his father"--a salesman for an oil company. Indeed, along with mountaineering, Brabeck today enjoys glacier hopping in a Piper plane with high wings and retractable skis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nestle's Quick | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Want to F*ck you Like an Animal: Receipts for: Nine Inch Nails CD, pony rental, sheep rental, tarp rental...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, Nicola C. Perlman, and Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 15 Parties We Can Have | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

Heading toward the main building to interview witnesses, we observed a chilling landscape. Ambulances and emergency vehicles lined most of Avenida Washington Luís. Directly below us on the street, rescue workers had spread a huge tarp yellow tarp and covered it with empty body bags and back boards, anticipating the toll to come...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal | Title: Tragedy at Congonhas, As I Saw It | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...approached the plate, the rain began to fall and within just a few minutes the tarp was dragged out over the field and the Big Green coach was calling to her team to “pack it up and head home...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rain Preempts North Division Clincher | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

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