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...that dot the Yucatan peninsula to the east. One reason: it supported only a few thousand people, rather than 100,000 or more. The major buildings and plazas were little more than earthen mounds covered with grass, lacking any sort of masonry facade and probably topped with pole-and-thatch houses...
...then, he was secure-not that he wanted much. For the last 20 years of his life, Fairweather lived in a grass-thatch shanty he built for himself on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland-no tropical paradise, but flat, mosquito-plagued and covered with ti-tree scrub. He had a scraggy beard and bright, China-blue eyes. His manners were polite and distant. He wasn't engaged in some Gauguin-based fantasy. He was simply living the way that suited him best, free from attachment. The locals thought he was a bum, a castaway, but his talent made...
...they press their advantage against government troops and murderous Hutu militia, the rebels of the Rwandese Patriotic Front are beginning to realize how little of their tiny Central African homeland will be left for them if and when the R.P.F. takes control. Mile upon mile of terraced hillsides and thatch-roofed villages lies deserted. The reek of decomposing bodies and packs of well-fed dogs serve as the only reminders that this was once one of the most populous regions on earth...
...forests, deep and dangerous as they were, also defined existence. Wood kindled forges and kept alive the hearths of the mud-and-thatch huts of the serfs. Peasants fattened their hogs on forest acorns (pork was crucial to basic subsistence in the cold of winter), and wild berries helped supplement the meager diet. In a world without sugar, honey from forest swarms provided the only sweetness for food or drink. The pleasures of the serfs were few and simple: earthy lovemaking and occasional dances and fests...
Epps, who spoke before Thernstrom, said themost recent hysteria about p.c. began in the BrownDaily Herald's Thatch cartoon, adding "AndI wish it would return to Brown...