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Venturing out on his own for one of the first times since he was injured, Anderson uses his newly fitted prosthesis to check for cracks in a dozen eggs he was purchasing for his out-patient housing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washinton,…

Prothesis expert Dan Conyers helps Anderson deal with his missing arm. A computer program trains him to use residual muscles in his arm to manipulate a prosthetic device. 'I pretend that my hand is still there,' says Anderson about learning to work…

A roadside bomb in Iraq irrevocably changed Bryan Anderson's life. He lost three limbs but refuses to lose his spirit of optimism and self-sufficiency. He's lived for a year in a military hospital trying to regain his mobility. Though never a big…

A woman looks out of the shattered Justice Ministry in downtown Kabul where a car bomb injured several people with the intent of disrupting government business and putting fear into everyday Afghans. An increasingly disaffected nation waits, hungry…

Said Zabiullah, 11 and Mohammed Ajmal, 13, sing a song about ethnic unity in Afghanistan along with other classmates the Deh Araban school on the outskirts of Kabul. 'We Uzbeks, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Hazaras and Turkmens are the flowers of one…

The majority of Afghans still suffer from poverty, lack of education and health care and over half the population does not seek help from government institutions because these institutions most often fail to provide assistance.

Soot still clings to the upper walls of the Shahid Ahmadi School in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province after an attempt was made to destroy the school that has almost 400 students. Classes are still held inside the partly burned school as well as just…

An Afghan National Army recruit exercises at a training center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. About one thousand new recruits come out of the center each month adding to an army that is currently 30,000 strong. High desertion rates, lack…

Zahara Sharif, the only woman among the four members of Afghanistan's parliament from Khowst province, spends some time with her daughter Zala. Sharif is a rarity in this conservative country and represents an institution that Western observers and…

With no permanent structure available for classes, children at the Deh Araban school on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan learn while sitting in a series of tents that comprise the school. Education is seen by many as a key to the continued…