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...have never known peace. For two decades, their country has been at war, first with the Soviets and then among homegrown factions. So many children wander the streets with firearms that, after a while, scenes of 12-year-olds skipping along with Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders seem almost normal. If Afghanistan is ever to settle into peace, these children will have the hardest time adjusting to a place where people don't resolve political squabbles with the pull of a trigger. "One of the most difficult things to change in our country is the younger generation's mind...
Though Americans, too, are still frightened to fly, many seem to view traveling now as a patriotic duty, a way to help the country return to normal. That conviction tipped the scales for my siblings and parents, who were wavering about a family trip to Hawaii in mid-October. The flights my sister and I took from New York, packed with defiant travelers, lacked a single empty seat. Arrivals from the 49 states to Hawaii are off 19%, not a bad drop these days. But the planes the rest of the family took from Japan were so sparsely occupied that...
...lives in the German town of Greifswald, claims that they "used to go to church more than to the mosque." Jarrah, says Salim, loved discos?"We didn't need veiled women and all that"?and sneaked shots of whiskey during a family wedding. He makes Jarrah sound like a normal guy, and normal guys aren't easy to catch...
...This is the closest thing to a Harvard-Yale showing that we’ve had in all four years that I’ve been here!” People are starting to show up to more than just Harvard-Yale and we are on the verge of normal...
...asked for help. I looked for help. Room 13 is a joke. Response is even worse. I will never forget sitting there with my roommate (who was also in tears) and wondering why the fuck the girl kept smiling at me and telling me that my feelings were normal. Is it normal to feel like your very own skin is an itchy sweater that you can’t take off? Is it normal to wish that you could just get a single moment of sleep without feeling like you were being hurt all over again? I thought UHS might...