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...which shows the life of a small band of Hmong, is deeply disturbing. The first footage-dated June 19, 2003-shows images of an emaciated baby. A girl cradles him in her arms, trying to feed him cassava roots crushed into a paste. Another child lies limp on the floor, her belly bloated from hunger. Their mother, unable to produce breast milk, was, says Va Char, out in the jungle searching for food. Outside the hut lies another child, too weak too pull himself out of the dirt...
...Sitting in the food court on the top floor of the Mega Mall, the latest shopping emporium to open in Gurgaon, with Domino's Pizza and Subway close at hand, it's easy to imagine you're in a city like New York or Sydney. Yet India's mall boom is premature for the country's level of economic development, says Bakshi, "Incomes in India have grown, no doubt, but we need to grow much faster?at 10% for five or six years, like China?before we can support all these malls." For shop owner Varadharajan, that much economic growth...
...victims may be the nearly 20,000 New Yorkers who walked, ran and crawled through smoke, fire and body parts to escape the buildings. "People cannot understand. We saw things," says Tania Head, who was injured while evacuating. "We had to make life-or-death decisions. The higher the floor, the more lonely you were. I can't get rid of my fear that it's going to happen again...
...Recently, these survivors have started to organize, as the families of victims have done. Last year Gerry Bogacz, who escaped from the 82nd floor of the north tower four minutes before the south tower collapsed, invited a few other evacuees to dinner. "We found that everybody was pretty much stuck," he remembers. "The rest of the world, even New York, has kind of moved on. But with each other, we can talk about anything." They formed the World Trade Center Survivors' Network. They now have 130 members. The group meets monthly and has adopted a platoon in Afghanistan. The survivors...
...American and Singaporean journalists after they reported links between the school and members of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. But after a special plea by an Indonesian-Muslim journalist, Ba'asyir approves from jail a visit by a group of Australians - who soon find themselves on his daughter Nanik's floor, lunching on fried chicken as veiled women move around beneath drawings of English castles and shelves stacked with children's toys. Her father is well, Nanik says politely through an interpreter. His faith sustains him. She waves the visitors off with smiles. Down the road at Ngruki, amid a labyrinth...