Word: orphans
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...Dark and intense with close-cropped black hair, Kim spent a year roaming around North Korea stealing to stay alive before escaping to China. (As with all of the other North Koreans mentioned in this story, Kim's name has been changed to protect his identity.) An orphan, his slight, wiry frame makes him look much younger than his 18 years. The Chinese have already arrested him on several occasions and sent him back: the last time he was put in a North Korean labor camp for repeat offenders. He and his older brother overpowered the guard and ran away...
...smile. One comely lad in a Taliban school loads a Kalashnikov rifle and obediently proclaims its virtues - it "kills the living and mutilates the dead" - as a mullah praises his recitation. ("Weapons," a visiting doctor says later, "are the only modern thing in Afghanistan.") Another boy, an orphan in the desert, will peddle anything, including himself, to keep going. He attaches himself to an educated Iranian woman who has returned from Canada to save her sister...
...death. Death chose him, even before he was born HIV-positive to a mother who died of AIDS before his third birthday. Back then, his adoptive mother Gail Johnson was told Nkosi had nine months to live, but he went on to be South Africa's longest surviving AIDS orphan. But it was not only his longevity that made Nkosi unique among the estimated 800,000 AIDS orphans in South Africa, whose number grows by 70,000 every year. Propelled into the media spotlight by the AIDS activist community, Nkosi Johnson became the human face of a plague to which...
...smile. One comely lad in a Taliban school loads a Kalashnikov rifle and obediently proclaims its virtues?it "kills the living and mutilates the dead"?as a mullah praises his recitation. ("Weapons," a visiting doctor says later, "are the only modern thing in Afghanistan.") Another boy, an orphan in the desert, will peddle anything, including himself, to keep going. He attaches himself to an educated Iranian woman who has returned from Canada to save her sister. As Makhmalbaf showed in Gabbeh, he is Iran's great colorist; here the grand vistas, the gorgeous hues of the women's burkas (which...
...thousand miles in all directions, including up, and for the wanton running-doggery of flying our prop-driven spyplane into the path of one of your Chinese hero hotdogs, even as he was in the act of rushing serum back to Shanghai in order to save a dying orphan and sought to take a shortcut by slicing through the People's Airspace that was feloniously occupied at that instant by the nose of the American craft...