One is 11-year-old Hussein Abdul Zahara, who looks like so many other boys his age -- right down to the blue soccer uniform and the wrap-around sunglasses.

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Like everyone else on the corner, he is wearing a generic threadbare soccer tracksuit, the ubiquitous uniform of the terminally poor.

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