Word: shirtful
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...recent humid morning in Riau, a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a young man named Suranto wakes early on a Sunday, wraps a red T shirt around his head and ambles off to the fields to work. Suranto isn't a local; he has come from northern Sumatra because there are jobs in Riau. The forests and peatlands of the area are being transformed into plantations, and workers are being paid to plant tens of thousands of young oil-palm trees in fields stripped bare of their native vegetation by burning. As Suranto stoops and digs one hole...
Assistant District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch placed on prominent display for the jury the formerly white t-shirt worn by Colono the night he was killed...
Torn and wrinkled in several places, the shirt was half covered in blood, now brown from...
John Soares, a chemist with a Massachusetts State Police crime lab, said that blood was also found on Colono’s jeans and that the cuts in his shirt were consistent with cuts left by a 4-inch blade found in Pring-Wilson’s Somerville apartment...
...imminent arrival. A couple of diehards carrying a JOHN HOWARD FOREVER banner pushed roughly through the photographers lining the stage, careless of a supposedly left-leaning media complicit in Rudd's triumph. As one tried to protect his camera, a rugby league player in an expensive suit grabbed his shirt, snarling, "It's you f___ people's fault. Are you happy...