Qat-ing with the World's fastest runners
November 7th 2008 Obviously I'm not very good at this. It is 3pm in the afternoon, or 9 o'clock Ethiopian time, and I am sitting slouched over with two branches of qat plant in my hands in a smoky, dim room off Bole Road no bigger than a typical dingy African single bedroom encircled with enough colorful blinking Christmas lights to give me a minor epileptic seizure. I'm trying to keep the wad of plant between my r
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