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...victory. Even as the Taliban's suicidal stragglers are being flushed from Kandahar and Tora Bora, some 1.4 million refugees inside Afghanistan face the double cruelty of hunger and homelessness just as winter stakes its annual claim. The situation was dire even before Sept. 11. Last winter 500 people perished from cold and hunger in the western city of Herat. Today about 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs in relief-work argot) are scattered among camps outside that city, with more returning from Iran daily. An estimated 6 million Afghans are what the World Food Program labels "food insecure"--increasingly...
...box” gestures with lucid arguments. Their two children (one boy and one girl) were growing up bilingual with the ability to speak English and mime in French. In the little free time Christina does have, she likes to shop, train for marathons and cure world hunger. It’s a good life...
...exposure are covered with earth and weighed down with stones against dust storms. During the summer, Abdul Jabbar sold for food all his family's clothes that weren't rags. Now his children can't sleep because of the cold, unless, like his wife beside him, they faint from hunger. So Abdul Jabbar hopes death will end their agony--and quickly, as it did for his son Jaan Mohammed, 12, who stepped on a land mine while collecting firewood. "We are already dying," Abdul Jabbar says. "I just want to die once instead of this dying a little every...
...city, returning with a few carrots or turnips that she divides between her remaining family of eight. "I used to be fat. I had a great fat neck," Sah Mohammed says, rubbing his scrawny nape. "After a while we ate leaves, but even those are gone now. Hunger has taken everything from us. Our family, our neighbors, our lives--and our hope...
...She’s the kind of girl who’ll feed the hunger in your soul / And pick your broken pieces up / And try to make you whole / And when she walks into a crowded room you will know she has arrived / ’Cause her dress should be arrested / And there’s starlight by her side...