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...thick with the metallic edge of fresh blood. It is as much a public spectacle as a demonstration of faith. "Everyone who watches is mourning for Hussein as well," says Ali Hosseini, an 18-year-old who has just pulled a black T-shirt over his lacerated back. Slowly the faded cotton darkens with blood. "Their presence gives us power." Indeed, the presence of an audience appears to egg on the penitents. The strikes are harder in the presence of video cameras and camera phones. Still, he says that he feels no pain. "Our imam was killed, his blood...
What struck me most about the four farmers who showed up at TIME's Beijing bureau back in 2001 was that they were wearing new shirts. With callused hands and dirt under their fingernails, these men were trying to blend in with the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...
...Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, undergrad entrepreneurs have begun hawking a line of 100% cotton tees with the catchphrase "I know who made my t-shirt? Do you?" If you don't know, here's the answer: Workers seeking to improve their lives in sub-Saharan African countries like Lesotho, Uganda and Tanzania with few other opportunities for sustainable employment. These workers, according to the students, are getting fair wages and working in clean facilities, and no children are exploited in the process...
...With 2,600 shirts already sold on the Ohio campus, the 15 undergraduates involved in the project are preparing to outsource the business model to other universities. They've been in touch with about 20 other schools interested in establishing their own Edun Live franchises. Faculty advisor Brett Smith says students have been willing to pay a premium for the chance "to change the world one T-shirt at a time." The shirts typically sell for $10 each, two dollars more than the going local price. Added Smith: "When we remind them that they could make up the difference...
...Gloria in Excelsis ___” 36 It can be third-person or first-person: Abbr. 37 Formal wear 39 Listen (to) 43 Hospital locales, briefly 44 Teachers’ org. 45 Blues singer James 46 *Like someone with a water phobia? 51 Unkempt hair 52 Without a shirt 53 Yoko ___ 54 Hydrocarbon suffix 55 Fox show whose theme song is “California” 60 Israeli guns 62 Mother fucking? 66 Number of muses 67 Total, as a tab 68 Make-up artist? 69 Head, in French 70 Go too fast 71 Throw spitballs...