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Striding into the hastily abandoned headquarters of Thailand's Red Shirt movement in central Bangkok, Colonel Apirat Kongsompong glanced at the detritus of demonstration: stacks of Styrofoam cups, half-empty bottles of fish sauce and whisky, remote controls for televisions once tuned to news channels documenting the street battles between antigovernment forces and the army. On Tuesday, Red Shirt leaders ended the protesters' three-week occupation of central Bangkok, which left at least two dead and more than 100 injured. On a mission to secure the area less than an hour after the Red Shirts had decamped, the commander...
...Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd— but wish that the reminder had been a bit more nuanced. As veterans of the postering process, we are aware of just how difficult it is to determine whether a poster has been intentionally vandalized or simply buried under the detritus of the daily poster wars. The former is a serious violation of College regulations; the latter is simply a consequence of sleep-deprived students rushing about in an attempt to finish quickly so that they can take a nap before their first classes of the day. HRL President Mary Anne...
Darnton relies on gentle satire to evoke the many ironies in newspapering and even his seemingly throwaway descriptions of news situations ring utterly true. The ancient pressroom at City Hall looks like "a crowded Mayan ruin littered with the detritus of tourists." The relentless questions rained on a journalist writing a page-one story on deadline is an experience "like getting nibbled to death by ducks...
...plastic ones. While paper bags decompose, they also release methane while doing so. While plastic bags are sometimes made with petrochemicals, paper bags require more energy to be made and recycled. The evidence that plastic bags kill marine life is not conclusive, and it's generally acknowledged that the detritus from commercial fishing is much more damaging. "My research into this issue has proved to me that something funny is going on," says Joseph. "The anti-plastic-bag campaigners are not being challenged. It's like a court case where nobody's representing the other side...
...unusually constructive response to a federal investigation, Kurtz and a group of artists have created "Seized," a small but mesmerizing exhibit made out of the refuse, scraps and assorted detritus that FBI agents left inside and outside of his house. "I started thinking," says Kurtz, remembering the day he returned to his house after the raid, "they went through my trash, so maybe I'll go through theirs...