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...classmates, Naomi Jamal, told how her mother, a doctor, had tended an Afghan woman in labor who had a piece of shrapnel the size of a spear tip lodged in her neck from an exploding U.S. bomb. The doctor was able to save the mother but not her newborn baby...
...secret ceremonies, however, the grizzly practice lives on. Quite simply, say the faithful?known as tantrics?Kali looks after those who look after her, bringing riches to the poor, revenge to the oppressed and newborn joy to the childless. So far this year, police have recorded at least one case of ritual killing a month. In January, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a 24-year-old woman hacked her three-year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches. In February, two men in the eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman...
...tried to control population by limiting most rural families to one child, two if the first is a girl. Because boys are prized in rural areas--they can work the land and give more support to their families--this has led many couples to abort female fetuses, kill newborn daughters or neglect them to death. The result: China, according to the World Health Organization, is short 50 million females. The first wave of children born under the policy is reaching marriageable age, and there are far too few brides to go around. The most desperate bachelors have taken to marrying...
...this. Near the city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other: both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf, to parents who are first cousins. This spring in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned beside a road. Authorities tracked down her parents, only to find that they were brother and sister...
...brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other. Both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf-mute. Everybody in the neighborhood thinks they know why: their parents are first cousins. And last month in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned by the side of a dirt road. Authorities tracked down her parents, only to find out they were a brother and sister, eking out a life together in a dark, cramped cave. And the situation could worsen. Chinese demographers estimate that in some rural areas...