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...years old, but Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, a feudal lord in Pakistan's rugged Baluchistan province, wants to fight to the death. A Kalashnikov rifle strapped to his back, Bugti travels by camel through desert ravines and hobbles up cliffs to hidden caves where he plots ways for his Baluch tribesmen to ambush the Pakistani army. "It's better to die?as the Americans say?with your spurs on," says Bugti. "Instead of a slow death in bed, I'd rather death come to me while I'm fighting for a purpose." That purpose is to make life as difficult...
...Number of boys repatriated last week from the United Arab Emirates?to which they had been smuggled as camel-racing jockeys?under a law requiring jockeys to be at least 18 years old 4 Age of the youngest jockeys...
...Number of boys repatriated last week from the United Arab Emirates--to which they had been smuggled as camel-racing jockeys--under a law requiring jockeys to be at least 18 years...
Pity poor Joe Camel. With him out at the retirement pastures and the Marlboro man likewise roaming the wild blue yonder, who’s left to seduce pretty young things...
...cries in the air of history. All are tackled by the scholars ... At one end of the room, the fragments are prepared for mounting. Those too brittle to be uncurled are placed in a humidifier ... Then they are cleaned of sand, mold and marl (a clayey sediment) with fine camel's-hair brushes ... Some are so delicate that special brushes of only a few hairs must be used; and these fragments bear warnings?Don't Touch or, occasionally, DON'T BREATHE!" Read more at timearchive.com...