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...schools, including 1.6 million girls. But a devastating campaign of intimidation through school burnings and the killing of teachers has forced the closure of many schools in the southern provinces where the insurgency is strongest. "How can the Taliban say they want to build schools when they have already burnt 180, closed 396 and prevented the youth of the country from going to school?" says Education Minister Hanif Atmar. "What they are really talking about building is madrassahs [religious schools] and terrorist training grounds. They will take young boys and train them in killing and suicide attacks on our country...
...young as three years old - were unearthed from the storm drain of the residence of a wealthy man on the border of rich Noida and impoverished Nithari. Plastic bags full of clothing were buried in the back yard of the three-story home. Fragments of human bones and burnt flesh were found in an oven on the top floor...
...vacation, and with the Southern hemisphere's summer at its sizzling hottest, the two-month party leading up to carnaval is just beginning. But over this past holiday season, after a night of terror wrought by drug gangs who attacked police stations, gunned down law enforcement officers and burnt buses, the self-proclaimed Marvelous City was beset by a mix of fear and fatalism...
...Even with their beach heaven going to hell, Rio residents laughed it off. Small businessman Paulo Rodrigues came to work and found two burnt-out cars blocking the road in front of his tiny shoe shop. When he heard of similar incidents on the normally safe South Side of Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf mountain, he couldn't resist a wry smile. "They're seeing it in Ipanema now," he chuckled quietly. "They've globalized violence...
...young son trudge across the burnt landscape of a world that has committed suicide in some catastrophe. This could be Mad Max, or it could be Samuel Beckett; it's certainly as thrilling as the one and as emotionally costly as the other. Just keep telling yourself, It's only a novel, it's only a novel...