In the past, when supplies were plentiful, it was sold from the back of trucks and donkey carts.

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Long before dawn the roads into town were clogged with horse and donkey carts on their way to one of the last of the great Central Asian bazaars.

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You've got to try to put the listener right there in the alleyways with the kids and the donkey carts - or on Gaza beach with the surf and the wind.

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SUVs mingle with camels and donkey-carts.

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And tonight this seems to be even more true - hand carts, donkey carts, a boy on a bicycle carrying two large wooden crates, two boys on a moped carrying an extension ladder and metal piping.

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