Word: tarpaulin
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...machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer. A brawl almost erupts, but the vagrants lose their nerve and flee. The militants retreat, but not before setting fire to the pile of twisted tarpaulin and scraps of wood...
...need to tell that to Ma'rus, a dazed looking Madurese refugee cradling her 15-day-old baby beneath a stretched tarpaulin in Sampit. Her fellow refugees are squeezed into every bit of shade they can find within a few hundred meters of the regional government office building. None dare to stray any farther for fear of Dayak patrols conducting what they call "sweeping" exercises: they are searching for Madurese to murder. The hospital around the corner from the refugee camp is almost empty, a health official says, although hundreds of refugees need medical help. It isn't considered safe...
...Help! No One Left Me a Big Crate of Supplies Without matches, a flag almost the size of Texas, tarpaulin, twine and a knife, what does one do for shelter and fire in the Australian bush? In Queensland, where the nights are reasonably warm, Lilley says Aboriginal people traditionally used a low, semi-circular windbreak of shrubs or tree boughs "with an open fire and your dog or dogs if it was cool or cold at night. A three-dog night is really cold." One piece of advice the Kuchas haven't heeded: Don't construct your shelter under eucalyptus...
Under a freeway overpass at Darling Harbour, more than 50 people from all over the world have congregated under a white tarpaulin to talk pins and do deals. For many, this is a biennial reunion: They turn up at every Summer and Winter Games. It's also where their version of the competitive Olympic spirit kicks in. Bud Kling, a 53-year-old tennis coach from Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been to six Games and has more than 20,000 pins, which cover his office walls and sparkle in custom-made display cabinets. A fellow trader comes up to gloat...
...course, none of this ever gets televised. The camera shows the tarpaulin or, worse, the faces and cheap suits of the announcers, who either pretend nothing is happening or offer a moralistic diatribe about "these idiots who needlessly extend the game to unmanageable lengths...