Word: preciousness
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...they “had whole bags of weapons and bullets.” Among the dead were four children under the age of 12, four women and eight men. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf expressed his outrage at the sudden extermination of these “16 innocent and precious lives...
...they “had whole bags of weapons and bullets.” Among the dead were four children under the age of 12, four women and eight men. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf expressed his outrage at the sudden extermination of these “16 innocent and precious lives...
...after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have launched the hunt for Osama bin Laden...
...frightens us. Because we know that this is the definition of courage--not an absence of fear but a willingness to live and move in its company, without becoming its hostage. If it weren't frightening, it wouldn't be a war; if it weren't about our most precious freedoms, it wouldn't be worth fighting...
...Afghanistan faces stark challenges. Though rich in natural gas, minerals and precious stones, it has been living from hand to mouth, unable to capitalize on those resources because of the 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...