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...There was no ham in the dining hall again yesterday. Is ham such a scarce fucking resource? It’s not like you have to mine it. What the fuck? Gossip Guy: crotchety lies, peeved rumors and frustrated innuendo...
...disruptions of decades of war. The illiteracy rate among adults is 64%. A quarter of Afghan children die before age five. Afghans have one of the 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...
...suspect that all Americans and other foreigners here are making their decisions according to their local realities. Last night, in a conversation with my electrician, who is a Muslim from Sumbawa, I heard a story about an American community on that island. There is a U.S.-managed gold mine on Sumbawa that employs several hundred Americans who live there with their families and who supervise a workforce made up of thousands of local people. As soon as this crisis started, the electrician told me, the locals saw the looming threat to their jobs, and decided to protect the mining operation...
...mother raising a child whose temperament is almost the polar opposite of mine, I liked the admonition "When you try to change a child's temperament, you can't. But if you try to do so, you are saying to the child, 'I don't like the way you are.'" Parents who learn to appreciate their children's strengths and don't condemn them for their weaknesses become more surefooted, fairer and better equipped to help them develop...
...test wasn’t as bad as it could have been,” Vaz said, “but I was pretty sure that the cut-off would be pretty high. When they started calling out the numbers, I was getting worried, but when I heard mine, I was very relieved...