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...Michael Chabon's pulitzer prizewinning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Josef Kavalier flees fascism in Europe for America, where he creates the Escapist, a comic-book hero based on the Golem of Prague, the clay giant and protector of ancient Jewish legend. Mythic defenders, Chabon shows, have long been with us. But it took America to make them into superheroes: big, magical men (and sometimes women) who protect us and embody our national character...
Farras Khan Shinwari starts work early, before the sun has risen over the red plains of Karkhla, 15 km east of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. After a meager breakfast of tea and dry nan with his brothers, he starts sprinkling water on the mound of red clay they will mix and form into bricks. All around him on the plain, hundreds of illegal Afghan migrants squat barefoot in the clay, forming bricks with their hands for less than a dollar a day. Even the pittance they get here is more than they could make at home in Afghanistan. Farras will...
...goes down at the end of a long day, Ibrahim's family of 12 has made 2,400 bricks. They are paid $1.60 per thousand. The workers kneel down and pray in the field. Tomorrow they will start the same routine over again?mixing clay, molding bricks and drying, stacking and loading them onto packhorses to carry to the kiln. The product of their labor goes mostly to build merchants' houses in Peshawar or Hayatabad. The Shinwari family can only dream of the day when bricks made by their hands can be used to rebuild their own shattered country...
...buzz was still undeniably vibrant and dynamic. The back end of the restaurant highlighted a large glass window that showcased the chef at work as he executed the meal preparation. While we waited, we entertained ourselves with the spectacle of the chef masterfully baking dishes in the huge clay oven and kneading batches of fresh Naan. Service was lightning-quick; our meals arrived within minutes. Unlike her namesake, Diva seemed to have no intention of striving to be fashionably late...
Last fall, Harvard junior Clay Bischoff sailed to an impressive fifth-place finish in the men’s singlehanded national competition...