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...even the bearded militant, are all such photogenic folks. And the girl who plays the militant's stepsister is an especially lovely child of perhaps 14. When she says fretfully that a sandstorm heading for their village could mean the end of the world, the young fundamentalist allows a smile to crease his stern face. "As long as there are beautiful girls like you," he says, "the end of the world will never come...
...lives just a few clicks past Kilometer 0. Thu was 24 when she came to Tan Ky, one of thousands of "vanguard women" who built the original trail by hand. She shows me a photo of herself from that time: a young girl with a sideways smile, wearing a conical hat tied with a bow. For six years, she slept on the ground, cutting trees and leveling rocks with only an axe and a sledgehammer. "Sometimes I thought I would die in that jungle," she says. At least five of her friends did: three from American bombs and two from...
...businessman squints from the photograph, his sparse beard framing a slight smile that lends him an enigmatic air. It's the same expression captured in the photos that have accompanied scores of magazine and newspaper articles on Rafik Abdelmoumèn Khalifa's spectacular rise as an international financier and jet-setter who hung out with celebrities like Bono, Pamela Anderson, Sting and Gérard Depardieu. But this particular shot of the Algerian tycoon is featured in a picture of a different kind: a mug shot on Interpol's Wanted list, where it was placed by Algerian authorities seeking...
...With her violet, oversized glasses, baggy purple smock and toothy smile, Chieko Saito could be your grandmother. But she is a bit different from the average septuagenarian. When Saito was in her mid-30s, she decided to get into the nude-dancing business, recalling, "I liked dancing, and as for the nude part, I didn't care." At first, she danced in a friend's theater after the movies played. Then, in 1962, she bought her own strip club; less than a decade later, she owned more than 20 theaters across Japan. Along the way, Saito's money...
Midway through the question-and-answer session, one participant said with a smile that Summers was performing better than he had expected...