Word: squalidity
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Winehouse, Amy • squalid details of life...
...trail has already gone cold. They cannot track him down. They are alone and bewildered in a squalid, industrial Mexican city. During that suspended moment - with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat - Part 1 ends. Bolaño has not told us what Archimboldi's books are about, or anything about them at all besides their titles...
...support for the nearly 1.7 million people displaced by the conflict and for the re-integration of former child soldiers. After Uganda’s independence, continued conflicts amongst rebel groups have thrown the nation into turmoil. Civilians of the north, particularly in the Gulu province, have fled to squalid Internally Displaced Person camps that are poorly supplied and defended by the central government, according to the Web site. “The war may appear to have ceased, but it will cost us more to restore the hope and happiness that used to take place in this nation?...
...lesson in being careful what you wish for. Pakistan's army was built to fight a conventional war with India and is ill equipped to handle violence at home. Three weeks of air strikes forced more than 260,000 residents to flee the region; many ended up in squalid camps. They have turned their wrath on the government, not on the militants who are fighting it. "We are sandwiched between security forces and the Taliban," says Fazl Sadiq, 30, who is staying in a camp. He claims that the air strikes have killed more civilians than militants. "If the government...
...suburb of Washermanpet, with only her four-year-old brother watching, the bright two-year-old was an easy target. While Fatima popped around the corner to the market, Zabeen was bundled into a motorized rickshaw and vanished into the mass of humanity that swirls through the city's squalid alleyways and slums...