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...Adam Ferguson, who has visited Afghanistan repeatedly to document the lives of U.S. infantrymen, landed there again, this time on assignment for TIME. His mission was to join Apache company, a detachment of 102 soldiers who had arrived a month earlier to establish a combat-operations post in the Tangi Valley, not far from Kabul. An incongruous strip of greenery between two bone-dry mountain ranges, the valley has become a flash point for the Afghan insurgency. By the time Ferguson got there, 26 men of Apache company had been wounded in the seven weeks since their arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Snaking along a dusty highway near Tangi Abrishum, headed west from Jalalabad to the Afghan capital of Kabul last Monday, a convoy of cars and taxis filled with journalists and interpreters was halted at a bridge by bearded guards bearing Kalashnikovs. A few vehicles managed to speed away but two were trapped. The armed men, probably Taliban but possibly bandits, forced four journalists out?sparing their drivers. The four, HARRY BURTON, 33, and AZIZULLAH HAIDARI, 33, both with Reuters; MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI, 39, of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera; and JULIO FUENTES, 46, of the Spanish daily El Mundo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Tangi Boston, 22, is one of the proudest students in the program. A former pharmacist's assistant, she says that the challenging curriculum at Philadelphia has changed her goals. Says she: "I never thought I could get anything but menial jobs. I want more than that now. I want a career." In January, Boston, who plans to study law eventually, will transfer to Philadelphia's La Salle College. She will be in an honors program there as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to First Principles | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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