The baking sun, coupled with the lunar-like lava beginning to dominate the terrain, starts to addle my mind.

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Mr Fuchs has seen cells built for eight men holding 48, cases of gangrene and tuberculosis left untreated and prisoners kept in unventilated metal shipping containers under the baking sun.

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At Muarrajat, a Bedouin camp, children sit on stones in the baking midday sun as they study their books.

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But now I found myself looking at a map, standing on a wide road, baking in the sun like the rest of the tourists.

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Who does that, who pours people drinks at eleven in the morning when everyone is just sitting there baking in the sun?

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For example, many drivers simply have scalded their fingertips on start buttons that have been baking in exposure to the sun.

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