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  • One tent now touches the tarp-covered air mattress Ms. Oestrich calls home.

    Protesters' Dilemma: Less Space to Occupy Andrew Grossman 2011

  • In the title piece of Steven Millhauser's collection of new and selected stories, "We Others" Knopf, 387 pages, $27.95 , the "we" refers to phantoms who infiltrate picket-fenced suburbia—becoming "the companions of lawn mowers in toolsheds, of gas grills beside tarp-covered woodpiles"—and who try in vain to join the lives of the people who live there.

    Of Bouquets, Suburbs and 'Urth' Sam Sacks 2011

  • In the new work being carried out just north of Pit 91, researchers hopscotch between two tarp-covered crates, which have been divided into grids to help pinpoint the exact position of fossils.

    Scientists dig for Ice Age fossils in Los Angeles 2011

  • Long driveways housed tarp-covered boats on trailers parked off to the side under open carports.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • Long driveways housed tarp-covered boats on trailers parked off to the side under open carports.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • People are entering the tarp-covered hut, one by one, asking for permission as I had seen them do at the temazcal at the cactus grove near the pyramids.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • A classic New England clambake includes lobsters, clams, corn and potatoes often with the addition of chicken, sausage, mussels and onions, all placed in layers alternating with seaweed and cooked for several hours on the beach in a canvas no rubberized or synthetic materials, please tarp-covered, rock-lined pit.

    Happy as a Clambake Gail Monaghan 2011

  • People are entering the tarp-covered hut, one by one, asking for permission as I had seen them do at the temazcal at the cactus grove near the pyramids.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • People are entering the tarp-covered hut, one by one, asking for permission as I had seen them do at the temazcal at the cactus grove near the pyramids.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • It boasts about 300 vendors who sell from wooden stalls and patches of tarp-covered concrete.

    City Walk: Luang Prabang 2010

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