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...were warned when we got to Khost that there may be suicide bombers in town, so we took precautions. I wrapped a scarf tightly around my head to hide my blond hair, and thought about buying a pair of brown contact lenses next time I return to the U.S. Balazs Gardi, TIME's photographer, traded his polar fleece and khakis for a shalwar kameez, the loose tunic and baggy trousers worn by Afghan men. Suicide bombers here often seek targets of opportunity, so we didn't want to draw any attention to ourselves...
...purpose in the pretty southeastern Afghanistan farming town was to report a story about cross-border terrorism. About 13 miles away, in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal agency, lies Mir Ali, near which several Taliban training camps are said to be based. "That's the center of international terrorism," said our host Hajji Faisel Rahman Muslim. Whether or not that's true, many Khost residents are convinced that the town is the Qaeda headquarters responsible for the plague of suicide bombings (some 20 this year) that have rocked Khost...
...guide's village is even closer to the border; he fled for the relative safety of Khost just after the attack. He refused to take us to the town, for fear of attack, and wouldn't let me go, either. He said that even disguised in a burqa, the way I walked would give me away as a foreigner, and my presence would create problems for the village. Instead, he said, Balazs could go, accompanied by Hajji Muslim's son - Balazs is Hungarian, and his black beard and dark eyes made it easier for him to pass. Maybe too well...
...United States. This summer she will return, funded by a $10,000 donation from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to rebuild a war-devastated athletic center in her hometown, Kolibe Gornje, Bosnia. Kobiljar said she hoped the reconstruction of the athletic center would promote peace by allowing the town to host the neighboring Bosniak, Croat, and Serb communities in competitions and tournaments, increasing interaction between the groups. She said she also hoped her plan would unite and empower the village’s residents by involving them in the project. “One of my biggest points...
While many of her classmates gravitated to Wall Street upon graduation, Emily L. Nielson ’04 decided to head to the impoverished border town of Roma, Texas. Now, as a Teach for America corps member, she is bringing a group of 15 promising students from her high school back to her alma mater to stoke their educational ambitions. In the week since their arrival last Saturday, the students will visit MIT, Wellesley, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern as well as Harvard. Nielson said she chose those universities because she wanted to expose them to selective colleges...