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...history has proved, the dust never quite settles in Afghanistan. At night, the streets of Mazar aren't exactly safe; residents lock themselves in high-walled homes and the pop and crack of gunfire sounds across the city until dawn. Even in daytime, people tend to remain within their neighborhoods, which are lumped into three zones under the control of Dostum, Atta or Mohaqiq. The Hazaras catch most of the blame for the city's violence. In fact, they have most cause for revenge: when the Taliban took the city in 1998 they singled out Hazaras...
...official shelter's walls, ceiling and floors are made of steel-reinforced concrete, the armored door is 30 cm thick, there's a small escape hatch with its own metal door and double-latch lock, and the shelter comes with two filtration devices: one designed to screen out biological and chemical substances and another to suck in fresh...
...keep their weapons under lock and key? No, they're incredibly casual with their weapons. They just lay them against the wall, lie them on the ground. They're always on their shoulder or just knocking against the back of a chair. When you leave in the morning, you put your shoes on, put your hat on and get your...
...vast majority of our crime is property crime,” Catalano said. “A lot of the property crime occurs because people leave their property unattended and they don’t lock their doors, or they leave their property unattended in the library...
...year, perhaps more than ever before, we all need the therapeutic effect of the mundane, the expected. We want to make the same stupid jokes we make every year. We want the gravy to be a little bit runny, because that?s how we remember it. We want to lock horns at least once with our siblings, exactly the way we always have, before everything changed...