Word: woodenness
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...price that Kentung's daughters pay for their parents' poverty can be found in its graveyards. The idyllic-looking hillside hamlet of traditional wooden houses and carved balconies brimming with mountain flowers is four hours north of the Thai border by car. In a town of perhaps 5,000 people, the AIDS epidemic imported from over the frontier reached the point in the late 1990s where someone died every day, according to one Western aid worker. The rate has since fallen, but it's not a sign of improvement. Rather, it's a reflection of the earlier devastation. World Vision...
...settled into our seats in the student section, which is comprised of ten long wooden planks that run along the length of the court (recently renamed “Coach K Court,” again in honor of the one and only Mike Krzyzewski). It was ninety minutes before game time, but the student section was almost packed. I looked up at the championship banners and the retired numbers in the rafters and had to pinch myself...
...bouncing begins. Now, I will admit that it took a little getting used to as I initially lost my balance and nearly jumped into the row in front of me. But once you get the hang of it, bouncing around with 2,000 of your closest friends on a wooden plank never felt more natural...
Reich started out with a joke, as he pulled out a wooden step to stand...
...With Friday fading and the light softening, it felt like we were speeding through Old Testament lands: shepherd boys guided flocks of goats over rocky slopes looking for feed; donkeys shuffled along paths with firewood roped to their backs; fields were worked with wooden implements; cloaked figures strode alone across vacant desert stretches miles from anywhere. All that broke the scene was a B-52 trail piercing the clouds far above...