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In that spirit, as the Commonwealth Games guests arrived last week, 1,000 workers scrubbed the Games Village clean while others hastily erected colorful billboards to obscure broken pits and tar-paper slums.

India wants to be a great power. So why are its Commonwealth Games such a mess? Jason Overdorf 2010

In that spirit, as the Commonwealth Games guests arrived last week, 1,000 workers scrubbed the Games Village clean while others hastily erected colorful billboards to obscure broken pits and tar-paper slums.

India wants to be a great power. So why are its Commonwealth Games such a mess? Jason Overdorf 2010

On Saturday, they open an 11,000-square-foot Interpretive Learning Center designed to look like camp barracks, down to the tar-paper insulation.

Memorializing a Painful Chapter of History Stephanie Simon 2011

Halvorsen and the other pilots were taken to tar-paper shacks being vacated by “Displaced Persons,” some of the eight million Eastern Europeans roaming the continent.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

When Tennessee Ernie Ford gave the full weight of his bass-baritone to "Sixteen Tons" and boomed that he owed his soul to the company store, the phrase evoked images of stooped miners living in tar-paper shacks under what Hardy Green calls the "super-exploitative conditions of life in a coal-mining company town."

The Labor of Living 2010

Baldwin, the New York Times chief military correspondent, when he saw the tar-paper shacks that dotted a cold and windy high plateau 120 miles south of the Canadian border and six miles east of Great Falls itself, a “city” of twenty thousand people.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

He'd made most of the furniture in their house, plus a carved headboard for her ninth birthday, decorated with birds and leaves, and a tree house for her brother that had a tar-paper roof and a fireproof pedestal for his camping stove.

Nan 2010

Already more than 800 million people -- almost one in seven inhabitants of the planet -- live in shantytowns, often in tar-paper shacks without water, sewers or electricity.

Economies Go Underground 2010

His first impression of Great Falls on December 16 was “a long line of C-54s and a long tar-paper shack with coal-burning stoves at either end, a bulletin board with a map pointing to the Mess hall, classrooms and the Officers Club.”

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

There was no sign of, or reason to hope for, a roadside zoo at the tar-paper shack cafe named SLIM JIM'S BUCKET.

NEEDS FROM THE FOREST 2009