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...toys and packets of cigarettes dropped from planes--and booby-trapped with explosives. Other refugees have been snapping up the rations, but even if everyone were willing to eat them, the roughly quarter-million U.S. food packets dropped last week couldn't begin to blunt the nation's hunger. Though the country's borders are officially closed, refugees are beginning to trickle over the mountains into Quetta and Peshawar...
...pioneered the field of popular oral history in 11 books, including Working and The Good War, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Recently he discussed with TIME the new kind of challenge he tackles in his latest book of interviews, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith, to be published this month by New Press...
...world's lowest per-person caloric intakes (an average of 1,500 calories daily) and one of the highest rates of land-mine-related amputees (1 out of 273 people). Three years of drought on top of 22 years of war have produced widespread famine. Fighting and hunger have uprooted huge numbers of civilians. More than 3 million Afghans already huddle in bordering states, and the U.N. fears 1.5 million more will flee the country in the current fighting. When the war ends, the country and its economy will have to start from scratch...
...Washington feed the American public's hunger for action...
...weeks ago, a senior Administration official told TIME, the President asked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to tackle the hunger problem. After consulting with Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other allies in the region, the Bush Administration decided that the most effective way to hold the coalition together would be a campaign to convince skeptical Muslims of America's compassion. "It's one thing to talk about it; it's another thing to do something about it," says a senior White House official...