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A physically-disabled Afghan girl waits at the International Committee of the Red Cross orthopedic center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. The center, that provides new limbs, wheelchairs and physical therapy for the disabled has registered 91,000 disabled since 1988 and about 80 percent of them are victims of war and conflict.
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