In India, a Quest to Ease the Pain of the Dying
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Although India produces more for the legal morphine industry than any other country, few Indians benefit.
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BHARATPUR, India  - For years, tourists have come to India's Keoladeo Ghana National Park to gaze at shimmering, bird-flocked wetlands stretching to the horizon.
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Got a terminal illness? Hooray. In the movies, looming death means last-minute adventures and loads of uplifting life lessons
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CUDDALORE, India -- The buzz of grim conversation in the darkened morgue was broken by a man's shriek as the small body was lowered on a bed. "My son, my king!" wailed Venkatesh, hugging the limp shrouded bundle.
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New hospice programs give patients medical comfort while allowing for sophisticated medical treatments.
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PATTRAN, India  - Manual laborer Gulzar Singh is   haunted by the day he exhumed baby fetuses from a pit outside   an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's   fight against female feticide.
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SRINAGAR, India -- Jana Begum squatted on the floor of her small kitchen with a friend, confiding to her how her life felt like a kind of purgatory, year after year spent waiting for a husband who had vanished shortly after his arrest by Indian security agents five years ago. To this day, Begum...
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RAIPUR, India  - Police in central India arrested   four sons of an elderly woman who died after jumping on to her   husband's funeral pyre, following the ancient Hindu custom of   sati, outlawed in the 19th century.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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A Delhi clinic is offering hope to the desperately ill. But the medical establishment is not convinced.
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JERUSALEM, Nov 15  - Israel is looking on anxiously at the unfolding struggle to fill the void left by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, keen to assist moderate elements to ensure a peaceful transition of power.
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For more than three decades, Damayanti Vijay Tambay has been longing, and perhaps dreading, to undertake this journey from India.
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High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
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AMINAGAR, India  - Neerpal Singh looks at the morning mist hovering over his sugarcane fields and breathes in the brisk winter air, yet to be warmed by the rising sun.
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KANAIPUR, India  - Every morning 10-year-old Indian villager Nipa Haldar crosses a canal in a small boat and trudges along a mud road for 20 minutes to reach school, pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse.
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NEW YORK The common perception that terminally ill people can hang on to life through important religious or personal days is more romance than reality, researchers reported Wednesday.
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SONANKUPPAM, India -- Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.