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Article: A little wiring, a little ingenuity, and voila, electricity in Sarajevo. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 2, 1994
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina _ On a snowy February afternoon, Minka Kaljanac drinks coffee while her children listlessly play a board game on the living-room floor.
Suddenly, there is a faint popping sound. A single light bulb hanging over the kitchen table flickers on.
Four-year-old Tarik Kaljanac is ecstatic.
``Struja, struja, struja,'' he chants, using the Bosnian word for electricity, as he dashes to the television.
Immediately, the board game is abandoned and the children are watching a cartoon version of Superman on videotape.
Life on Logavina Street, as elsewhere in Sarajevo, is measured out in kilowatts. Some people have electricity some of the ...
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