Makeshift
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An Indian villager constructs a
makeshift
vehicle to transport his livestock and goods by rigging a wooden cart with an irrigation hand pump that serves as an engine.
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So these 20-somethings created an alternative health care system, where what they did is they used Twitter and basic publicly available tools that when someone's injured, a car would show up, it would pick them up, take them to a
makeshift
medical clinic, where you'd get medical treatment, as opposed to being executed.
After a lethal 1995 heat wave turned refrigerator trucks from the popular Taste of Chicago festival into
makeshift
morgues, Chicago became a recognized leader, tamping down on the urban heat island impact through opening cooling centers, outreach to vulnerable neighborhoods, planting trees, creating cool white or vegetated green roofs.
And I'm sitting there in this
makeshift
prison in the north of Iraq with this 23-year-old who had actually trained as a suicide bomber before defecting.
At these large-scale construction sites in China, you see a sort of
makeshift
camp where workers live during the entire building process.
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