The Story: While visiting a Pashtun refugee camp in Pakistan, photographer Steve McCurry snapped a pic of a 13-year old orphan with hauntingly beautiful eyes. The image made the cover of a 1984 National Geographic, and the girl became an international celebrity. Well, sort of. Despite securing a great shot, McCurry never took down the girl’s name, and despite taking more than 10 trips back to the region to locate her, it would be another 17 years before she was tracked down.The Post-Puberty Report: Now a wife and mother of three, Sharbat Gula lives in a remote village in Afghanistan. She lives in purdah, and while only female reporters were allowed to visit and photograph her for National Geographic’s long awaited follow-up, supposedly she’s now “being looked after” by the magazine. Of course, as the BBC reports, the most amazing part is that she hates the iconic photo. She never liked the red scarf she was photographed in, she doesn’t like media attention, and has since moved to avoid future interviews.
From www.mentalfloss.com
Sounds to me that she has the credentials to become US VP...
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By golly I think she would be
pretty darn good VP, but can you
see Russia from there? I had
seen this before and always really
wondered if it was the same
lady for I thought her "nose"
looked different, but suppose they
know for sure it was her. I still
have a copy of that Nat. Geo. too.
Getting on to the " bail out" , I
don't quite understand why the
market went back up around 400 some
points today. Guess it is all too
"high tech" for me to understand.
Larry King has two guys on debating
whether Mc Cain made a bad choice
picking Palin. It should be
interesting to see. Thur.
night will be more interesting.
After 20 years, my nose looks different, too...it's BIGGER, with more NOSEHAIR...
I think stocks went up because people were buying financials while they were so low hoping that the bailout will happen and then they can make some money...oh, my god, I'm starting to talk and write in little rythumatic (sp)
sentences like Sarah Palin...I have got to turn off CNN...
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