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Mithat Alagic lives with his wife and seven children in a one-bedroom apartment with walls blackened by soot from a wood stove. Alagic, 36, was groundskeeper for the Sarajevo football team for 15 years before the war, but has not worked since the fighting began. His family survives on dwindling supplies from the U.N. "It just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according...
...first U.N. trucks finally lumbered into Srebrenica, Merima and her brothers slept close by to assure themselves a spot. Now safe in Tuzla, Merima studied a sandwich and an orange that have been plopped into her soot-stained hands by an aid worker, not quite sure whether to admire them or eat them. Her brothers puzzle over jars of British baby food. "We haven't seen such things in almost a whole year -- chocolate, oranges, real bread," says Merima. "We've been living in a different world. Before the war we wouldn't even think about bread...
...where donkeys, cattle and camels graze. The Marines are entering territory they have not yet explored. Sitting on top of their vehicles, they point M-16s toward the thorn trees and foot-high shoots of corn on either side of the road. Hot exhaust fumes coat their faces in soot. Each time the convoy approaches a village, Somalis come out to cheer. "It's unbelievable," says Fisher. "You're expecting them to shoot at you, and they're all standing there clapping...
...lights atop the Hollywood power tree. They're usually skiing or schmoozing in Aspen, the Rocky Mountain town that is the glitterati's Gstaad. This Christmas, though, the slopes may be a bit less congested. And some of the entertainment elite who winter at Colorado resorts may notice the soot of a guilty conscience tarnishing their white Bogner ski togs...
That was only the beginning of disaster: now the real tragedy began. Nitric oxides rained from the air, turning the sea to acid. Clouds of soot from incinerated forests darkened the sky, hiding the sun for months. Worldwide, the temperature dropped precipitously, killing off most of the plants and animals that had survived the initial cataclysm. Though some species would linger on for millenniums, the reign of the great reptiles was finally over...