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Don Ayala (left) has pleaded guilty to killing the man who attacked Paula Loyd (right) in Afghanistan. |

Anthropologist's war death reverberates
In a hostile corner of southern Afghanistan, an American platoon fanned out around a market, forming a protective circle around a petite woman with a notebook. Paula Loyd, a Wellesley-educated researcher, began interviewing villagers about the price of cooking fuel - a key indicator of whether insurgents had hijacked supply lines. (Full article: 2368 words)
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