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119742
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Kabul-In the traditional pose of Afghan men, Abdul Zia sits quietly-squatting down on his haunches close to the ground. But something about Abdul Zia doesn't look like the rest of the men crouched along the streets of this capital city. Over his Pashtu turban are khaki, military-issue ear warmers. The hood of his dirty, 1970s ski jacket, likely a western cast off, is riddled with holes. His beard is grubby and matted.
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119738
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Ten minutes drive from the coastal Angolan city of Benguela, on the edge of what was once an abandoned banana plantation, a massive white steel structure emerges from the surrounding shanties and barren fields. Only a single paved road runs alongside it. Benguela's stadium is one of four built for the 2010 African Cup of Nations, an event designed to showcase Angola's charge toward modernity. The event resembles, on a somewhat reduced scale, the World Cup. But with the barriers Angola needed to hurdle to prepare for its hosting duties, the event may as well have been the Olympics. Only 10 years after a 27-year civil war, much of Angola's national infrastructure remained shattered, with land mines marking conflict zones across its landscape.
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119745
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Lahore-Talking over the hum of a power generator, Monis Rahman settles into a plush black chair in a glass-paneled conference room at his offices in Lahore, Pakistan. The midday sun peeks through vertical blinds behind him. Though the power is out yet again, the 40-something tech entrepreneur who runs Naseeb Networks, the job site Rozee.pk, and matchmaking platform Naseeb.com, is unfazed. He's energized about an upcoming event in his country called TiECon, a conference hosted by the Indus Entrepreneurs Network. "We're promoting entrepreneurship in a major way," Rahman says in near-perfect English.
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119746
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New Delhi-India has 1.2 billion people speaking the 15 official languages printed on every currency note. There's just no room on the Indian rupee for the hundreds of other languages and dialects spoken across the country. For a traveler, India can feel like Babel itself. Yet, most Indians manage to communicate with one another. The country won its independence from British rule in August 1947, and until the mid-1960s, it seemed as though the centrifugal force of linguistic difference, which also flagged cultural difference, would balkanize the new republic. But since the partition of Pakistan over six decades ago, India has hung together. If sometimes it seems precariously close to disintegration-thanks to internal religious or political conflict-then it is no longer because Indians expect their separate languages to count as the bases for distinct nationalities, as they did in the early phase of decolonization.
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119740
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119748
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Will McAvoy, a primetime cable news anchor and Aaron Sorkin's lead character in his new HBO primetime series "The Newsroom," pushed to the limits in the series pilot, blurts out in a public forum that the United States is no longer the world leader in any important metric. "We are seventh in literacy, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports," McAvoy shouts. "So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about." Needless to say, Sorkin's loud-mouthed anchor runs into a mess of trouble as a result of his outburst.
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119736
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Paris-When the gun sounds on the evening of August 4 to set the fastest men in the world surging down the track at the Olympic Stadium in London, much of the world will be watching. For the shrinking, but still significant, slice of population that remains immune to the increasingly pervasive global reach of sport, the question is: Why? There are those who cannot understand, may even distrust, competitiveness in adults. Others question the resources-time, energy, and, above all, money-dedicated to modern sports, particularly the great set-piece events like the Olympics or the soccer World Cup.
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119744
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Phnom Penh-The turnaround of state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority over the last two decades is now legend in Cambodia. Director General Ek Sonn Chan took the company's reins after the country had suffered decades of civil war. United Nationsbacked elections had been held and international money was starting to flood the country, but the damage was done.
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119735
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2012.
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Each day, millions of men and women play games, as sports has become a force for linking people across cultures and continents-bringing often remarkable changes to societies. Today, we have asked our panel of global experts to weigh in on how sport has transformed their world.
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119737
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Gaza-When Dorian Paskowitz came to Israel in 2007 on a mission to spread peace through surfing, he had a simple motto: "People who surf together can live together." In Israel and Palestine, with near-constant conflict and some of the highest birth rates in the world, living together is becoming more important every day. Of course, this idea of living shoulder-to-shoulder in peace is not entirely welcomed by all the residents of the region. Bridging the divide that separates Israeli from Palestinian and Jew from Arab is essential to the region's long-term stability, and surfing can unite people and create lasting friendships, not around politics or religion but around the joys of catching a wave.
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119741
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Reyhanli, Turkey-On a Friday in early April, for the first time since opening almost one year earlier, Turkey's Reyhanli refugee camp is quiet. Its tight security-barbed wire, guards, and a large swath of farmland isolating it from the next town-has been loosened ever so slightly by the constant movement of Syrian refugees north from Reyhanli along the Syria-Turkey border to a new camp, 90 miles away, in Kilis. Guards lounge at Reyhanli's half-open gates, letting journalists and refugees pass with a nonchalance compounded by exhaustion. Collapsed canvas tents lie in mounds beside their swept-clean concrete beds. Near the gendarme station, children swarm around a custard cake, a present from Turkey's Anatolia News Agency, the agency's logo decorating the top in blue frosting. But in the background of the isolated, half-empty camp, the acrid black plumes coming off nearby mounds of burning garbage are like smoke signals.
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119743
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Phnom Penh-The 328 acres known as Boeung Kak Lake still appear on maps of Cambodia's capital as a large blue patch, though its waters are now only a memory. Pumped full of sand, the area is being readied for a promised development that has already displaced some 4,000 families. Looming over the puddles and dirt, two massive billboards display portraits of the high-end residential and commercial wonderland intended for the plot.
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