That said, it if can't handle a little FedEx abuse, how's it going to survive war zones, impoverished countries, and misuse by trust fund babies?
Sangsar, the village where the Taliban reorganized in the 1990s and began their spread through much of Afghanistan, lies in an impoverished agricultural zone along the Arghandab River basin.
When we entered the tree-impoverished arctic zone on Day 4, I noted that my fingernails were black with dirt, that my beard and mustache tasted of things I did not remember eating and that my body was serving up a buffet of odors I had never encountered before: ground-corpse tacos and sweat lasagna with a side of blue-cheese iodine.
American policy makers were far more cavalier about the sovereignty of Latin American states than of Arab ones, yet Latin America is a largely democratic zone with both deeply impoverished and middle-range countries.
This was a journey into the heart of Russia's impoverished rural areas, to post-war zones and still-fragile towns.
Our goal was not to make a lot of money, but to distribute as many One World Futbols as possible to kids living in refugee camps, war zones, troubled inner-city neighborhoods and impoverished villages.
Unrest has erupted in one of the least understood conflict zones of the former USSR: the tiny, impoverished Black Sea territory of Abkhazia.
The school in South Carolina, which is majority African-American, draws from impoverished catchment areas and at times feels like a militarised zone.
They live in a different zone from the rest of India's Muslims, who are largely impoverished.
She says red zones are a "costly, inefficient and counterproductive" way of moving impoverished residents away from the area.
