children are burning pages of schoolbooks to stay warm in the besieged city of Rastan

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must endure frigid temperatures in tents.

The coldest air of the season is moving in behind a heavy snowstorm that has blanketed refugee camps in Turkey and Lebanon.

And inside Syria, residents in cities pummeled by warfare are taking drastic measures to stay warm -- and alive -- through the winter.

In a video posted online, three men and two children are burning pages of schoolbooks to stay warm in the besieged city of Rastan.

"We can't use the heaters inside our residences. No fuel, no wood, no electricity," one of the men says.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/world/meast/middle-east-winter-weather/index.html

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1. This is sad.

I can't imagine being an adult in a war torn area, let alone a kid.