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Feb 18 2008, AP

U.N. peacekeepers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks whizzed into this refugee camp. A dozen women came to meet them, bringing their donkeys, water rations and homemade axes.It was time for one of the refugees’ most perilous tasks: collecting...

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In this photo released by Knopf shows the cover of “The dawn Patrol,” by Don Winslow.