Metres away, outside in the street, four Ebola victims lie listlessly on benches in a tent erected to deal with the queues of patients who descended on this clinic in Freetown when Ebola first flared up in the Sierra Leonean capital.
The needle stops at just over 10kg what a healthily plump one-year-old should weigh.The teacher nods and puts Vishal back on the floor, where he sits listlessly before a jigsaw puzzle.
Lacking these, the book plods listlessly, stripped of any kind of humour or lust.
Money-changers, slumped in chairs in the immigration hall, ask listlessly if any tourist bus is waiting to cross.
The National Military Hospital in Kabul is full of young soldiers and policemen, lying listlessly on their beds or learning to walk with prosthetic legs, who have sustained horrific injuries but still say they are proud to have served their country.
Above all, there are ships as far as the eye can see: tugboats, barges, shrimp boats sagging listlessly; farther out, vast oil tankers lying at anchor waiting for a ship's pilot to guide them safely into port.Every ship of consequence that comes into an American port has to be guided in by a pilot, who boards it a few miles offshore and dictates its passage into its appointed wharf.
Fears are rising that Ivorian strife could spread in the same way that trouble in Sierra Leone and Liberia oozed across borders in the 1990s.In Toe Town, a dusty one-street border spot in eastern Liberia, lorries are parked up, while female hangers-on loll listlessly in the heat.
IN A state-run hospital in Turkey's south-eastern province of Urfa, rows of wounded Syrian opposition fighters gaze listlessly at the ceiling.
Not far away at the Lucky Dragon, a casino Mr Ho carved out of an office building in 2005 to compete with the new arrivals from Las Vegas, a few people sit listlessly on stools around an electronic roulette wheel.In this section Plus ça change Ring of steel Happy meal Power struggle Excellence in a cup Betting on growth Heading down a dangerous road The careful climber ReprintsMr Ho is no fool.
IN THE rubble of a railway station in Kuito, a war-shattered town in Angola's central highlands, three men sit listlessly beside a pot of water.
Emaciated children sit listlessly on their beds.
