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Since American forces left, pessimism has skyrocketed\\u2014and with good reason. Starvation is driving Afghans to sell their organs and even their children in order to eat. The artificial snow of this year\\u2019s winter Olympics is unsustainable and environmentally troubling; we meet a \\u201csnow consultant\\u201d pioneering a better way. And remembering Lata Mangeshkar, who gave voice to a newly liberated India.

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