Word: snowfields
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...differ on the "nothing magical" part. How can you taste water just five miles from its snowfield source - before any treated sewage comes close to touching it - and not thrive, even if just a little? The darkly dense forests here stimulate the imagination. The alpine tundra tantalizes the spirit. In Last Child in the Woods, the author Richard Louv argues that today's overly wired children suffer from nature-deficit disorder because they are so transfixed by indoor recreation. Louv also mentions nature's "healing" aspect - how studies have shown that prisoners and hospital patients do better if they have...
Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza. "The Taliban burst in with their guns and torches," says Shah Jan. "None of us even had time to put on our veils...