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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Asia, the truth is that the vast majority of Chinese working abroad aren't going to go home rich. Driving up to the Ramu mine site, I stopped the car at an incongruous sight: against a backdrop of rain forest, a lone Chinese man perched on a piece of cardboard overseeing a crew of local workers struggling in the sun to sheath a pipeline with insulation tape. There was a feudal tinge to the scene, but the life of Chen Ming, the Sichuan-born supervisor, is hardly idyllic. He has been in P.N.G. for 18 months, working seven days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of China Inc. | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Wear a brown sweater (for meat), a red scarf (for tomatoes), and shredded green construction paper on your head (for lettuce). Wrap yourself in a taco shell made out of a large cardboard...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Dress Up as a Burrito, Get a Free Burrito | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...above. Replace cardboard taco shell with a beige or yellow bed sheet...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Dress Up as a Burrito, Get a Free Burrito | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...real televisions were harmed. The sets were just cardboard boxes painted with inane smiley faces and decorated with slogans like "Feel good!" "Proud to be USA!" "Safe in the homeland!" The aluminum-foil antennas, however, did collapse miserably from the real gunfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Beans of Egypt, Maine, Sprouted a Militia | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...After General Gration told the Washington Post that "cookies" and "gold stars" might be useful in forcing Khartoum to cooperate, a few dozen activists from the group Students Against Genocide sarcastically delivered a large cardboard cutout gold star and smiley face to the front of the Sudan embassy in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darfur Activists Frustrated with Obama's Sudan Policy | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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