Soccer as an Escape to Hope for Afghan Teenager
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Shamila Kohestani, the captain of the Afghanistan national womenâs soccer team who was deprived an education for much of her childhood, is now growing as a student in America.
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NAIK NAM, Afghanistan -- Saher Gul was chalking a long division lesson on the blackboard of his two-room village school. Twenty-five boys, ages 9 to 19, were sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor. Suddenly the earthen walls and ceiling exploded and collapsed, smothering the class in a mountain of rubble.
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A year ago, Clint Dempsey was a potentially viable reserve for the Revolution. Now he is not only a certain starter, but has also become a factor on the US national soccer team.
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Afghan women made a short-lived debut in the Olympic Games on Wednesday as 18-year-old judo wildcard Friba Razayee was defeated after 45 seconds of her first match in the under-70kg middleweight.
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the Afghan presidential election narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban yesterday in the latest bid to derail Saturday&#39;s poll.
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Entrepreneur Kamela Sediqi teaches Afghans around the country the skills they need to start ventures.
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Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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LONDON, Sep 12 (IPS) - The coalition forces in Afghanistan could find it  easier to fly in than fly out of what is emerging as another trap  for them.
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Thousands of kids play soccer for fun, but yearslong involvement with the game can have more health benefits than routine physical activity.
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Soccer has been popular in my city since the seventies, and I vividly remember qualifying for state in two track &amp; field events because the leading girl in my district had injured her knee playing soccer.
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Two years ago, Ryad Bencheikh played soccer in Morocco, his home country. He didn't run track, he ran with a ball. But since immigrating to Woburn midway through his freshman year, Bencheikh has become a star.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage in Afghanistan for nearly six weeks left hospital on Wednesday, with their doctor saying they were physically fit but may still need counseling.
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Teenage asthmatics would like to participate more fully in sports and other school activities, but feel hampered by their disease, according to an a University of Missouri allergist.
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IRAKLION, Greece - The only teenager on the U.S. women's soccer team gave the old vets a chance to leave with one last gold...
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s inauguration as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- One moment, Suleyman abu Foul was at the breakfast table, asking his mother for food. The next, the 15-year-old Palestinian had slipped out unnoticed into a neighborhood torn by more than a week of combat.