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...misery. It was the first time he had used a firearm, and it took him four shots. Three months later, Mukhtar joined the rebel Northern Alliance army to learn how to use a Kalashnikov. "My life is dedicated to killing the Taliban," he says, his reedy voice untouched by adulthood. "I will spend the rest of my life finding the people who killed my family...
...front lines, the Taliban also profits from young guns. Taken from their homes before their teens, these kids are steeped in battle tactics and religious fanaticism. War orphans are especially prized by the Taliban because they have no home to which they can escape. By the time they reach adulthood, the mullahs and commanders of the Taliban have become their family. The Taliban insists the extreme measures of jihad require extreme schooling. "Children are innocent, so they are the best tools against dark forces," says a Pakistani Taliban fighter, who was captured by the Northern Alliance last month near Dast...
...architect Bart Voorsanger says the steel beams are ?torqued in amazing ways.? Does Al Qaeda deserve a commission? No, but there?s something to be grateful for in the new American mood of seriousness, wariness, solemnity, mourning. It means that, as a country, we?ve been shocked into adulthood...
This statistic has caused great concern at UHS, as research by Harvard professors Graham Professor of Gender Studies Carol Gilligan and Professor of Psychiatry George E. Vaillant has shown that behaviors developed in early adulthood often become life-long habits...
...What separates childhood from adulthood? Many of you thought home schoolers weren't missing out on childhood if they ended up being more patient, less competitive and combative, and more likely to introduce themselves than public school students. "How do rudeness and fighting allow kids to be kids?" asked a confounded mom. A woman from Alabama asserted, "Being a child does not mean you have to be childish." "I prefer polite, respectful behavior over the taunting and bullying that pervade public schools," agreed a North Carolinian. A 16-year-old Minnesotan attested, "We home-schooled children have time for imaginative...