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By the end of last summer, neither had joined the church. "You just feel so spiritual when you leave [the church], but then you get back to normal life," Genelle explains. By then she and Roger were living together at his place in Cypress Hills, a working-class neighborhood in...
Though she has recovered from her leg and other injuries, Genelle spends most of her days at the Cypress Hills apartment, where she reads the Bible and watches the big-screen TV. She, Roger and Roger's son Kadeem live mostly on the salary Roger makes as a pressman for...
Spanning the hills of the southern subcontinent, the vast coffee plantations of India's Coorg region are tranquil sanctuaries known mainly to those who work the land. A half-day bus ride from the nearest airport at Bangalore?and generations removed from the congested tumult of India's other population...
Lately, however, the fortunes of the local industry have turned. A global crash in coffee prices forced plantation owners to seek new revenues to keep their operations afloat. Some have diversified by raising other crops, such as vanilla beans. Others capitalized on the natural beauty of the area's tree...
The Taliban may have been forced to surrender its grip on Afghanistan's cities last winter, but it was never systematically disarmed. Its fighters simply scattered into the hills, returning to their villages and, in many cases, joining up with local warlords. Many of their leaders escaped capture, too, most...