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...said. "I know them." We had hardly moved a few hundred feet when Mohibullah suddenly veered off the road into a field. "Take it easy, I have to talk to my brothers," he said while constantly honking in an effort to attract someone's attention from the large mud house that stood in the field. Nobody came. He ran into another house. A moment later, at least a dozen armed men in two vehicles came towards our vehicle. In the meantime, Mohibullah had brought two men in military fatigues outside and pointed...
...very cautious as we drove along the track. We drove without headlights - by far the most dangerous part of the operation, and Khademudin even covered the luminous clock with his scarf. Then a moonlit walk through the village along a narrow Tuscan hill-town lane, (many of the mud houses are three story) to a house with the best views. We clambered up the mud stairs, and just before we reached the top Khademudin ordered "lamps...
...candy at a local residence. Soggy and disheveled (almost all of my spots were ruined after the Prime Minister’s left water-balloon breast experienced a slight leak) we finally arrived at 33 Elmwood. The large, yellow edifice was surrounded by bulldozers and piles of mud, so making our way up to the main doors was no easy feat. After calling out Larry’s name for a good five minutes (as if he’d really answer to that), we settled for the “deliveries only” entrance and belted...
Chen Jinchang lives with two women, three coffins and the certainty that one day the Yangtze River will flood his simple mud-walled house. But to a barge-towman who spent most of his years in the westernmost of the Three Gorges in central China, straining against ships' ropes of braided bamboo, this looming disaster is relative. "I used to pull boats through there 25 times a month," says the 73-year-old, pointing from his doorway to Qutang Gorge, where the Yangtze rushes between towering limestone cliffs...
...Whether in Taliban or Northern Alliance-held territory, an Afghan girl trades her veil for a burka at age 15. But in Northern Alliance country, girls from wealthier families can attend schools taught by female teachers. Still, mud walls throughout this nation are built high to keep women shielded from outside eyes. Women in Northern Alliance territory are allowed to be educated, but they are not to be seen. That, says one bearded man, is the way it has always been. Ever since biblical times. And Afghanistan seems in no hurry to leave that bygone...