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...EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany, is a huge undulating grid of paper tubes enclosed, like a covered wagon, with a paper canopy. A nine-ton, 87-ft.-long lattice arch of tubes currently swoops over the garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, casting a thatch of ever changing shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: He Builds With A Really Tough Material: Paper | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...There is--though it remains limited. Two weeks ago, I joined an American delegation from the Atlanta-based Carter Center to observe a township election of government officials and People's Congress representatives in China's Sichuan province. When we arrived in Banqiao (pop. 1,987), a hamlet of thatch-roof houses and muddy roads, the villagers had gathered on the basketball court of a local school to elect three representatives to the township. People's Congress. There wasn't a lot of choice: four candidates, all picked by the party, for three seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitness: An Experiment in Voting, If Not Democracy | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...beds are hammocks tied to posts in a shed with a thatch-and-tarpaulin roof. "If you need to take a leak during the night, watch out for snakes," Mittermeier tells me. "I'll do that," I say, and drink nothing before bedtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: RUSSELL MITTERMEIER: Into the Woods | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...racing against time, as Western influences seeped into native villages. Thatch roofs were giving way to tin, while shorts and T shirts were replacing breechcloths and feathers. The shamanistic tradition was fading because missionaries brought in modern medicine's pills--many developed from rain-forest plants in the first place. Most ominously, the Amazon rain forest was dying around the edges, torched and slashed by farmers and loggers. Somewhere in the jungle might be a cure for AIDS or cancer that would be lost forever before it could even be discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: MARK PLOTKIN: In Search Of The Shamans' Vanishing Wisdom | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...know this sounds odd--is Bill Clinton. But if you could see this haunted house, you would note how sad and uncomfortable it makes you feel. The place is destroyed and not destroyed; it is both the ghost and the living thing. Its overgrown lawn is as thick as thatch. Its chimney tips like a cocked hat. At dusk its side wall, blasted by the dying autumn light, shows in a fierce and pathetic white--a burn victim in a sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regarding the Haunted House | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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