Now, It's Business That Booms: With Bombs Mostly Silenced, Commerce and Confidence Are Growing in Kabul

--headline in The Washington Post, February 26, 2003

Abqel Khan, 2, smiles at his grandmother, but he cannot even crawl or walk because of severe malnutrition. In Kabul, the number of children suffering from malnutrition has increased to 11 percent in 2002 from 6 percent in 2001.

--photo caption in the Week in Review section of the March 2 New York Times (print edition, page 2; online edition here).