Word: wet
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AUSTRALIAN JOURNEYS On the Offbeat Track Mission: Patrol At sea with the border watchers of Torres Strait The Gift of Prayer Behind the walls of a Carmelite monastery Speaking Stones Digging into the ancient past at Riversleigh Travelers' Rest A roadhouse oasis in the remote Northern Territory Wet and Wondrous Rafting the wild reaches of the Franklin River The Gospel Run Taking the church to the people of the Outback Press Gang Getting the nation's news out at the Australian Super Bowl Inside the myth-filled Wolfe Creek meteorite crater Unseen Gladiators Keeping the Melbourne Cricket Ground alive Hands...
...opening scenes of the film, the three main characters—then 10 years old—are approached by a man claiming to be a police officer after they write their names in wet cement. The man, whose badge is fake and who is not wearing a uniform, insists on taking Dave Boyle (later played by Robbins) to his mother, shoving him in the back seat of his car. He then sexually molests the boy for four days, setting up the rest of the film...
...recent years, thousands of Montagnards have fled the country for Cambodia, and many were subsequently resettled in the U.S. (Some 1,000 made the journey Stateside following the 2001 protests.) Another exodus to Cambodia has now begun. TIME has met more than 160 would-be refugees trapped in wet, mosquito-infested jungles, afraid of being rounded up by Cambodian police and repatriated. They are battling hunger and illness. "We came so that the international community would help us," says a Gia Lai man in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province. But so far, no help has come. Still, says another...
...staff members pushed aside thoughts of their own wet clothes and lack of sleep to turn their attention to the students...
...even though no one had gone back to sleep since the early morning downpour, and even though my socks were still soaking wet, and even though all we had left was bagels to get us through another two ferry rides, three train rides, and a bus ride back—I had to admit that this student was right...