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| | Balkan Physics |
 | | Once the rain fell, this place would turn into a quagmire. |
 | | The constituent elements of a nation were on view below: country women, in the flowing trousers known as shallvare; old men in suits, and wearing the conical hat known as a qeleshe; and urban dwellers in track suits and T-shirts-architects, doctors, lawyers, and professors-from Pristina, Kosovo's capital, only fifty kilometres up the road. |
 | | The country people were stoical and sat cross-legged on blankets, poking at the strange American ready-meals, in tinfoil packs. |
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