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...Wednesday, Palestinian militants detonated explosive charges knocking out slabs in the 26-foot concrete border wall, and by dawn, Gazans were racing to the open border on donkey carts and tractors and in cars. Once through the holes, they trampled across barbed wire, vaulted over fences and picked their way gingerly through cactus. Many carried heavy suitcases and said that they were never coming back to captivity in Gaza...
...live in squalid, sprawling camps around north Darfur's main town, shopkeepers are cashing in on the influx of aid workers with money to spend. A six-story shopping mall and office block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says Babkir, whose prices rise when...
...recently completed her dissertation on the animal exploitation practices of two different communities in the Nile Valley, analyzing animal bones from two archaeological sites. “She was always very excited to see the day’s finds, and ran out every day to greet the donkey cart when it came in from the site,” said University of Pennsylvania professor Josef W. Wegner, who conducted research with Rossel in Egypt. “It was wonderful to have such a sparkling personality out in the Egyptian desert,” he said. Rossel...
...always very excited to see the day's finds, and ran out every day to greet the donkey cart when it came in from the site," said University of Pennsylvania professor Josef W. Wegner, who conducted research with Rossel in Egypt...
Bhutto supporters arrived from as far away as Abbotabad in the country's northeast and Quetta, on the western border with Afghanistan. They arrived in buses and cars, on foot and by donkey cart. As dawn broke on the morning of her arrival, the crowds awoke from the highway medians where they had passed the night in hopes of getting a glimpse of a leader few had seen other than from a television screen. Babur Khan, a 28-year-old employee at the Karachi stock exchange said excitedly, "She will bring employment, she will restore democracy, and she will bring...