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...Tanzania will always be the six weeks I've spent living in King'ori village, home to 4,500 people halfway between Arusha and Moshi (ie, the dusty middle of nowhere). Village life is nothing like I expected: Poverty doesn't define it, and you don't see the disease and famine that you hear about on the news. It's here that I've experienced the generosity of the African family—how they will continue to feed you long after you're full, and how they will take in anybody, no matter how distantly related, if they...
...high-heeled woman who took off work to watch the sun at 9 a.m. rushed back, and worked overtime. The little girl who jumped with glee as she faced the receding, glowing-red blob was hurried onto a school bus to sit behind a desk for the next six hours or so. People flowed back onto the escalators—letting themselves be moved instead of moving—to the next destination after destination, always looking forward and never around...
...When the last curve of the moon moved out of the sun’s way, everyone clapped. That is, everyone but one. A six-year-old kid, who had sat videotaping the sky for hours, bawled. Maybe he was mourning the fact that everything was going to be the same again. We crave change, but we don’t make it happen: We expect it to happen...
...Year in which the tenement at 97 Orchard became a National Historic Landmark. It now houses the successful Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which has restored six of the building's original apartments...
...sentence. The facility - to be run jointly by the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense - would also house suspects being indefinitely detained, as well as those who have been found innocent but can't be repatriated because no other country will take them. (See pictures of U.S. troops' six years in Iraq...