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Author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, July 15, 2009. Mortenson, who wrote "Three Cups of Tea," built the new school to promote community education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, July 15, 2009. Mortenson, who wrote "Three Cups of Tea," built the new school to promote community education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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