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 Posted: Tue 7:53, 06 Aug 2013 Post subject: he sits in the shade of a nearby tree |
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traffic begins to clog the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, dozens of men and women line up at a recruiting station near the main gates of Maracanã Stadium, hoping to join the 5,500-person crew. "I have plenty of experience, and I have some friends working here, but it's not always easy to get hired on," says Anderson Santos de Sauza, a 33-year-old carpenter applying to help finish the stadium's posh new interior. After submitting his papers, he sits in the shade of a nearby tree, checking his cell phone while he waits for an interview. Workers are on site 24 hours a day, chugging water and sucking on popsicles during the hottest part of the day, catching naps in the shade of a palm tree or a crane.New workers flock here daily, and construction quickened through Carnaval and a wet month of February. It takes a fair amount of optimism to imagine how this work in progress will be ready for hordes of soccer fans, not to mention the global sports-journalism complex. In the cool morning hours, enormous
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