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...into decorative bells for $2,400 a pop. The leftover aluminum shavings make a nice tree ornament that someone might actually buy (the "Everest" balls are $48 for four at Eco-Artware.com). Or save your money and hang items from around the house-Barbie's accessories, Pez dispensers-using hemp twine...
...Anybody here from Wisconsin? All right, put down the cheese for a second. I got to talk to you. Listen to this: A guy in Wisconsin, he created a ball of twine that weighs 19,000 lbs. Nineteen thousand pounds, a ball of twine--and guess what, girls? He's single." --DAVID LETTERMAN...
...another car, the rear end so loaded it was almost dragging the ground, Yussif Ashour of Chacra, his brother and four women in the back competed for space with family artifacts, foam mattresses bound with twine and stuffed in the trunk and a very tired-looking taxi driver. But it wasn't clear what his family was returning to. "They say 80% of our village has been destroyed," Ashour said...
...prompted tens of thousands of people to demonstrate in front of town halls throughout Shaanxi. At first, officials negotiated with peasant representatives. When talks stalled, local officials cracked down. In Ansai county in 2003, protesters say, police rounded up scores of demonstrators, shaved their heads, trussed their arms with twine, and marched them into the courtyard of a government building to be harangued by officials...
...describes his encounters with people fleeing Kim's totalitarian rule. In northern China, Becker joined a Chinese shopkeeper to hunt for refugees, for whom the Chinese government was paying 60? bounties. They found one near a garbage dump. "As the shopkeeper fished around in his pocket for some plastic twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only 28, had crossed the border in a final effort to avoid starvation...