Indian Tsunami Widows Struggle to Pick Up Pieces
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Chinnapillay no longer dreams of her children leaving the family tradition of fishing and getting what she considers a decent job.
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Tempers flared over the  sluggish pace of aid efforts in India's remote and restricted  Andamans and Nicobars Sunday as hundreds of bodies lay  scattered around the islands a week after the tsunami struck.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Fighting to survive without water or food since the tsunami, villagers on a remote southern Indian archipelago forbidden to outsiders are starving and desperate for humanitarian aid, survivors and officials said yesterday.
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. -- The day after the tsunami barreled across Indian Ocean shores, Anushka Nadarajah felt a wave of emotion wash over her. "I saw a video of a young girl who had lost her parents," the 15-year-old said. "She was asking them to come back and find her. But they were probably never coming back."
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Two weeks after the tsunami swamped the northern Sumatra coastline thousands of bodies still cover the area, looters are picking through the debris, and survivors still in shock wait for medical help for broken bones and deep wounds.
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MUMBAI: For survivors who lost relatives and property in the tsunami, there may not even be the compensation of an insurance claim to ease their suffering.
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Survivors are united in their desperate search for loved ones in Thailand, says the BBC's Kate McGeown.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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A mother who was swept away by the tsunami knew she could not hold on to both of her young boys and had to decide which one to let go of.
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The identification of Thailand's tsunami dead becomes increasingly difficult as bodies decompose.
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed about 2,000 people.
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Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They cannot remarry. They are forced to shave their heads and typically wear white. Even their shadows are considered bad luck.
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The local chapter of the American Red Cross is collecting funds for tsunami disaster relief in Southern Asia. Executive Director Susan Sauls cautioned that the Red Cross is not equipped to handle any donated items.
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Rescue workers raced to get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday, and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  about 2,000 people.
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As the death toll continues to climb and the clean-up efforts begin in South Asia, Bishop Howard Hubbard is asking for a special collection to be taken for tsunami victims.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Four weeks after killer  waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone  tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare  moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.