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...Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife's unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes away tears as he describes his prospects in the coming Afghan winter. Freezing rain and snow will cover the Dehdadi camp on the southern outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, home to 15,000 refugees. Temperatures will drop to 5[degrees]F, and the filthy roadside ditch from which the refugees fetch their gray fetid water will freeze...
...experience is the same going uphill, downhill or across any kind of terrain - even ice. It is nothing like riding a bike or a motorcycle. Instead, in the words of Vern Loucks, the former chairman of Baxter International and a Segway board member, "it's like skiing without the snow...
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...weather for Saturday night at Colgate calls for lows in the mid-30s and possible snow but Harvard is hoping to heat it up on the ice for its first games of the season...
...feed the hungry. "If there are serious impediments," she warned, "then we could be looking at a humanitarian catastrophe." Bertini's apprehension was shared by six international aid agencies, who called for a pause in the bombing to allow food to be delivered before the winter sets in and snow clogs Afghanistan's roads...