Word: excrement
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...sticks and scraps, sacks, blankets, has no floor and no sides so that the freezing wind and dust storms find it no opposition at all. Imagine no money, no food, no firewood and no water except for a black, stinking roadside ditch that bears all the plastic wrappers, oil, excrement and soap from the city and daily carries off camp neighbors who starvation and exposure do not take away. Then imagine your reaction as two well-dressed men, one a foreigner, pull up in a taxi, stride over to your hovel and start asking questions. Your name, how you came...
...kids join the army because there's little else to do?and to keep their bellies filled. In a country with limited electricity or running water and few roads, many boys must forgo school to make money any way they can, even following cows with upturned palms to catch excrement to sell as fuel. Joining the army guarantees free food, clothes and cigarettes?plus the chance to swagger. "When you fight for your people, you become a man," says Shukrullah, 12, who strolls the mountainous streets of Farkhar with a loaded, unlocked Kalashnikov. For these youngsters, it doesn't matter...
Four nurses were supposed to be on duty, but because of staff shortages, there were often only two. Several times visitors found Brunton lying in his own excrement. He got bedsores. For two days in March, when outside temperatures were just above freezing, the heating in the Victorian pile was turned off for repairs and his temperature plummeted alarmingly. Brunton was wrapped in an insulating blanket to get warmer on his own, which he did. After six weeks in such conditions, Brunton died. The doctors and nurses who looked after him "worked heroically," says his son Paul. "But the system...
...Four nurses were supposed to be on duty, but because of staff shortages there were often only two. Visitors found Brunton several times lying in his own excrement. Harried staffers often failed to put on his glasses or hearing aid or dentures, so he spent hours in bed cut off from the world. He got bedsores. For two days in March, when outside temperatures were just above freezing, the central heating was turned off for repairs and his own temperature plummeted alarmingly. His children were told the hospital's warming suit was already in use, so Brunton was simply wrapped...
...caught in a molar-shaped hot air balloon, seduced by a trailer trash temptress played by Jaime Pressly (Tomcats, Jerry Springer: Ringmaster) at a carnival, swung like a doll in the jaws of an enormous crocodile and finds himself on the losing end of multiple encounters with human excrement...