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...first attacks. "The women and children went out into the street. In Kabul there's no safe place to hide from bombs anyway." That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape and melon harvest in Afghanistan, so trucks laden with fruit lumbered for 24 hours down the road from Kabul to the markets in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan...
Quandong: a small australian tree of the sandlewood fameil, whose edible fruit has a single stone containing an edible kernel...
...these would come at a cost, the Bush Administration also sensed an opportunity. Officials saw a strategic opening, a chance for a new round of realpolitik, which might knit together the U.S., Russia, China and India in the fight against terror--a partnership, however fragile, that could bear other fruit. A huge dividend came last week, when Russian President Vladimir Putin eased his opposition to NATO expansion...
Pick up a piece of fruit--a common red fruit, the kind that keeps the doctor away. What do you see? An apple? Not really. You see a bulbous round of apple skin. Maybe a piece of stem. What you don't see is white flesh, black seeds, core--99% of what makes an apple an apple...
...centerpiece of "Cross Sections" is Pomegranate Wall, an 8-ft. by 40-ft. curved, backlit transparency containing thousands of interior views of a pomegranate. Seen close up, the cross-sectioned fruit could be microbes; viewed as a whole, the work resembles a panorama of galaxies. When Wagner shows you a pomegranate, you see all of creation, microscopically and macroscopically. And you really see a piece of fruit as you never have before...