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NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie says her work as a humanitarian ambassador for the United Nations at first left her tearful and overwhelmed.

"The first two years I just cried constantly,” the actress told Newsweek. "I couldn’t really talk about the situation without being emotional. And I went through a period of just complete lack of hope.”

During her February visit to the Oure Cassoni camp on the border between Darfur and Chad she came across a disturbed 7-year-old boy whose family had tied him to a pole to stop him wandering away or banging himself. The boy had spent 48 hours hiding in the bush after his village was bombed.

"I talked to him for like half an hour and just kind of looked at him for a long time before he touched me,” Jolie told the magazine, "and there was a little boy in there who was open to a kind sound.”

Jolie has visited camps in Africa, Pakistan and Cambodia as part of her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She said she travels unaccompanied on commercial flights, and doesn’t care about people who describe what she does as celebrity tourism.

Aspen Ski Patrol rescues actors lost in snow and fog on mountainside

ASPEN, Colo. — The Aspen Ski Patrol had to lead actors Rob Morrow, Chad Lowe and Fisher Stevens to safety after they and other skiers got lost in snow and fog and ended up out of bounds.

"We’re all good skiers,” said Morrow, star of CBS’ "Numb3rs.”

However, he admitted Saturday, they didn’t know the mountain. "We were going every which way.”

They ended up with another group of lost skiers, who had used a cell phone to call for help. All were in an area closed to skiing.

Ski Patrol members led the group to the bottom of the mountain, a three-hour trip through heavy snow, streams and dense forest.

"It ended up being great because it was a good adventure,” Morrow said.