Afghanistan: Poppy Palaces and "Narcotecture"

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Here's a photo-essay from True Slant by P.J. Tobia on the houses that opium poppies built in Afghanistan. Here's a related video feature in Monocle magazine. Here's a related AFP item about poppy palaces and widespread corruption in Karzai's Afghanistan, and here's an item about the neologism in the NYT blog "Schott's Vocab." (Image: P.J. Tobia / via Kristie Lu Stout of CNN)