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...just trying to get out of Postville," says Marcus Valdez, 39, who arrived from Texas with his pregnant wife and two young children but left Agriprocessors after five weeks. During his time there, he says he injured his forearm and his eye was infected by turkey innards...
Whether strangers grip my heavily sun-blocked forearm to press it against the darkness of their own, or whether I am harassed by the unflagging shouts of "Hey, China" or "Chinese woman," I am constantly reminded of how different I look. At one point, I hoped that wearing sunglasses would somehow obscure my Asian eyes. I did not want to be a novelty, so I shied away from being Asian and gravitated towards being American...
...mistaken. Obama travels to small, rural venues with some regularity. But the impression has been established, and is widespread among Clinton supporters. "He seems like he is too good for the common people, and I don't like that," Batterman continued, an intricate flame tattoo coursing up his forearm...
There are two things Ed Soares is devoted to. One is his job as a detective for the East Palo Alto, Calif., police department, where he has worked for five years. The other is a large garish tattoo of St. Michael casting the devil into hell that adorns his forearm. The image is a work in progress, and Soares, 33, has spent three years and $5,000 getting it just the way he wants it. So he faced something of a test of allegiances this summer when the department forbade all its officers from displaying tattoos...
...proud in a vinegary sort of way. "All that we have in tennis came from mud, from nothing," Tipsarevic told reporters earlier this year about his compatriots achievements. Tipsarevic, an iconoclast with rings in his eyebrows and a quote from Dostoyevsky's The Idiot tattooed, in Japanese, on his forearm, is the most talkative of the new crop. "Nobody in our country invested one dollar into any one of our players," he said. His tongue-in-cheek explanation for why so many Serbs are suddenly playing at the top of the circuit? "Depleted uranium," a reference to munitions dropped...