1.   Among the broken pottery, glass and loom weights, a human skeleton lay on the packed dirt floor.

2.   Orange trees rise from the packed dirt between the huts.

3.   Rows of trailers line streets of packed dirt, so when it rains or the snow melts, mud is everywhere, and children track it into the trailers.

4.   The asphalt and packed dirt that once surrounded swings and slides have been replaced with soft rubber mats.

5.   The packed dirt floor before a derelict stone archway, the dried reeds sprouting randomly as indications of privation and neglect, all suggest a bereft, suffering community.

6.   The third of nine children, she grew up in a hut with a packed dirt floor and a thatched roof.

7.   They can be held in place with either packed dirt or concrete.

8.   Thousands of residents are still in temporary shelters of plastic sheeting and corrugated metal atop the packed brown dirt left by the volcanic mudslide.

9.   In sumo, wrestlers pair off in a raised ring made of tightly packed dirt.

10.   Seguku, which is supported by U.S. funds, is a tumbledown collection of tin-roofed, cement buildings with broken windows, floors of packed dirt.