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...then capture in photographs what he calls the "human bond" between his subjects and the readers back home. For this week's issue he traveled to Afghanistan because, he says, "I thought it had dropped out of America's consciousness." Driving around Kabul in a beat-up Toyota taxi, he was astounded by the devastation Afghanistan's long civil war has wrought on its capital. "More has to be done about the humanitarian situation," says Nachtwey. "Those people should not be forgotten...
...inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance and she tows...
...imagination, or did my taxi driver have a particularly forlorn look? Just in case, I told him that in 1932 the Cincinnati Reds lost the first three games and then came back to take the World Series. I've found that it's pretty safe to make up facts about the Cincinnati Reds. They didn't seem to have many knowledgeable fans outside Cincinnati even before they fell into neo-skinhead ownership...
...council also voted not to allow U.S. Shuttle to conduct business in Cambridge, arguing that the airport shuttle service would take business away from local taxi drivers...
Fishing tops the list of most dangerous jobs. Predictably, most are killed in boating mishaps. Similarly, most loggers are killed when struck by trees. But most surprising is taxi drivers. Their greatest job risk: murder...