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...begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50[cents] on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces. Eight months ago he was killed by a stray rocket. "There is no work for women," Sabza says. "We had nobody to look after the family, so I came to Kabul." Now that the Taliban...
...Sabza Gul, 32, now begs at the Kabul bus station and makes about 50 on a good day. Some years ago, when she was still living in a village north of the city, her husband went blind. The family became dependent on whatever money their son Humayoun, 17, could earn as a field worker. The fields were close to the occasional fighting between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces. Eight months ago he was killed by a stray rocket. "There is no work for women," Sabza says. "We had nobody to look after the family, so I came to Kabul...
...what's the point? Why not go out and play?for several days and nights at a time? But running away to Shibuya or other metropolitan party hubs can be anything but a harmless lark. Some young runaways have been murdered. The lure of prostitution, to earn spending money or just to find a warm place to sleep, is hard to avoid considering the vast network of predators trained to sweep young girls off the streets and into the simmering sex industry. Authorities are waking up to the problem, though they're stumped on how to attack...
...wanted two points tonight, no question, but to come back and earn a point like this is really big,” he said. “It’s kissing your sister, but this is a point that will help us down the road...
...make decisions beyond those of our undergraduate lives. Of course, from the inside of the Harvard lens, it seems that fat paychecks and prestige are the only ways to ensure future success. But it’s going to be mighty refreshing and mighty reassuring when we finally earn our degrees, break out of this place and taste a bit of the real world...