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		<title>Pencils, Not Missiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Central Asia Institute advocates for the inclusion of education in the international &#8220;anti-terrorism&#8221; arsenal. December 11, 2001 &#8211; Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute (CAI), believes that educating girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan could be the ideal, long-term solution to terrorism. &#8220;If we could have the $1 million for the purchase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seismic Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2001 23:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was packing for a trek through roughest Afghanistan when the world shook. Sometimes adventure has to wait. By Mark Jenkins I HAD MY PLANE tickets for Islamabad and the perfect travel companion waiting for me in Pakistan: Greg Mortenson. Greg is the founder of the Bozeman, Montana-based Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit humanitarian organization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building bridges: Mortenson offers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took Greg Mortenson eight hours to learn about the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Considering he was in a village of mud huts eight miles from the border with Afghanistan in northern Pakistan&#8217;s Charpusan Valley, it came pretty quick. &#8220;We were about 85 miles from a phone; the word came by Jeep, foot, donkey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sure way to dry up the Taliban&#8217;s manpower pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of a long air trip from Peshawar in Pakistan to Seattle, mountain climber-turned-aid coordinator Greg Mortenson found himself drinking tea with the Taliban. With their financial support pinched off in Pakistan, operatives of Afghanistan&#8217;s fundamentalist Muslim regime were flying to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to pick up cash to finance their war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aid Worker From Fears Escalating Desparation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mortenson has seen firsthand the needs of Afghans forced by war and the threat of starvation to leave their homes for refugee camps in Pakistan, and now more than ever he fears for their welfare and for those living in Afghanistan. One of very few foreigners allowed into refugee camps &#8212; even foreign aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan refugees nearing crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fleeing thousands find only hunger, desperation await at Pakistani border Thursday, September 27, 2001 &#8211; SHAMSHATU, Pakistan &#8211; Montana mountaineer Greg Mortenson winced at the sight: Refugee boys as young as 4, whose families just fled Afghanistan, labor here in an open-air brick factory to survive.&#8221;Sometimes no food,&#8221; 9-year-old Arnan Gul said, his bare feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US urged to find root cause of terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAWALPINDI, Sept 22: The United States should find out the root cause of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington instead of running after Osama bin Laden, said Greg Mortenson, the chief executive of US-based Central Asia Institute (CAI), while talking to Dawn. The approach, Mr Mortenson believed, reflected the ignorance of the Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native Minnesotan relays view from Pakistan: qualified support for U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the remote villages of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan, frightened residents are as eager as any American for news of U.S. plans for a response to the Sept. 11 attacks, said Greg Mortenson, a Minnesota native who founded an institute that builds schools in the region. The difference is that word races via &#8220;the buzz&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Northwest &#8212; From the Hindu Kush: &#8216;Hellish place to fight a war&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montana-based mountaineer Greg Mortenson has devoted eight intensely rewarding years to building schools and public health projects in precipitous, remote reaches of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains of Kashmir and northern Pakistan. The Central Asia Institute&#8217;s founder-director hardly expected to find himself on the likely front lines of a 21st century American war. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Northwest: Climber takes on another uphill battle in Kashmir</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A California girl was hiking apart from our trekking party in Nepal&#8217;s Khumbu region a few years back when she encountered a gawky, reserved guy with a lantern jaw and twangy accent that sounded Australian. Later, in camp, our guide informed her that she had unknowingly been talking with Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander [...]]]></description>
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