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Jamila market had become an abandoned dusty lot as the blasts of missiles, mortars and gunfire rattled the surrounding buildings in Baghdad's Sadr City. That was two months ago, at the height of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's military campaign in the fiercely hostile Sadr City district of...
"I'm going to tell my wife I spent the day at the beach," joked a sweat-soaked, middle-aged guy, brushing off his overalls during a break from shoveling heavy sand into orange bags. A father and daughter, an inner-city church youth group, brawny twentysomething guys and spindly...
We've been reading the paper and watching the tube, trying to keep up-to-date on the flood zones, evacuation orders, and road closures (including portions of Interstate 80); looking at wrenching images of flood scenes near and far: a woman crying on her Des Moines doorstep as she...
It was devastating to see thousands of schoolchildren buried alive when the earthquake reduced whole towns to rubble. The images of lifeless young bodies lying in piles in the ruins of their schools sickened me. As an overseas Chinese, my heart goes to the bereaved families, who have lost their...
3. Start small Purging can be very emotional. "It's a big mistake to dismiss clutter as junk," says Morgenstern. "These piles are things that were once important to you, to who you once were or who you wanted to be." To help ease you into the process, she suggests...