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...summer afternoon in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, hundreds of young Muslim students sleep in the shadow of a mosque's arches, enduring the hard stone floor and swarming clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need...
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...never know who will be number one—the top five is not set in stone so that really pushes us to compete amongst ourselves,” Lyons-Quirk said. “We lost a lot of seniors but there are a lot of people ready to fill in the gaps...
Father Roman steadily climbs up the narrow stone stairs within the wall of the bell tower...