But she says the destruction of her school leaves her distrustful there will be a lasting breakthrough.

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Louis-Georges Arsenault, emergency office director for UNICEF, said 1 million children were at risk of not starting school by September, mainly due to the Taliban's widespread destruction of schools and that 4, 000 existing schools continue to shelter displaced people.

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There in a one-room schoolhouse he had learned his lessons, in the days before the destruction of the public-school system.

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They also come from a culture that supports access to lethal weapons: the crazy availability of guns like the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used by Adam Lanza that are, in effect, weapons of mass destruction when turned against children at school, or moviegoers in a theater or shoppers at a mall.

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