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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...
...yourself. Complete solitude is a little harder to find in the Lower 48, but it's there, at least in the West. If you are willing to carry your house on your back, turtle-fashion, the entire Western high country is yours for ski mountaineering. Perhaps because tent, stove, food, fuel and avalanche beeper weigh 65 to 70 lbs., you and your partner are likely to have the horizon to yourself, with (the thought occurs spontaneously after a seven-hour, 4,000-ft. climb) no other fools in sight...
Hagenbuch's friend went alone and died in Paris, asphyxiated by fumes from her stove. "I wonder if I had gone, if I would have remembered to open the window," Hagenbuch says...
...magic. What are spells, if not womankind's oldest recipes? What is a caldron but a pot for witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love her and poison those who would enslave...
...family of Suren Pogosian, that is unimaginable. Smoke gusts into the air as Pogosian, 68, opens the hatch of the tiny iron stove he has welded together and feeds in a few more bits of wood. His wife and teenage son, joined by some neighbors, huddle around, their eyes fixed on the bubbling pot of potatoes that will make the day's single meal. The stove provides the only heat the apartment has had for two years...