Pursuits
To Apple, From a Deadly and Devastated Slice of Paradise
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Dr. Mario’s words were clinical, precise. They barely rose above the volume of a whisper, but probably will never leave me. I met him in the summer of 2012. We were in the director’s office of the largest hospital on Bangka Island. An emergency room attendant, Dr. Mario was describing for me the condition of the corpses of men and boys buried alive in tin-mining pits gouged across this Indonesian island just off the eastern coast of Sumatra.