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...surprise for me to read about parents who ask doctors to cripple and maim their child for the sole purpose of somewhat lightening the burden that this unfortunate little girl represents to them. What really disturbed me is the acquiescence shown by those doctors who consented to commit what in my eyes is a horrific and heinous crime-of course, not before enlisting an ethics specialist who gave them the go-ahead. Arturo Camillacci Osaka, Japan...
...surprise for me to read about parents who ask doctors to cripple and maim their child for the sole purpose of somewhat lightening the "burden" that this unfortunate little girl represents to them. What really disturbed me is the acquiescence shown by those "doctors" who consented to commit what in my eyes is a horrific and heinous crime - of course, not before enlisting an "ethics" specialist who gave them the go-ahead. Arturo Camillacci Osaka, Japan...
...human waste that many Hindus were understandably hesitant about diving in recent weeks to ritually cleanse their souls as their faith directs. But after thousands of holy men threatened to boycott the six-week festival - one of the largest gatherings in the world - while others said they would commit the ritual suicide "jal samadhi" in protest, officials in India flushed the river with water from an upstream dam. Here's how other waterways have fared since their filthy conditions were plunged into the spotlight...
...offspring of a well-off family in Lyons, Henri Grou?s was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi to commit his life to what he called "absolute Love." Chronic bad health made it impossible for him to continue his original choice of staying in a Capucine monastery. As it turned out, the secular world proved a fertile field for action. He joined the French Resistance during the war in Grenoble, and helped Jews, forced laborers and others escape from occupied France; it was in that capacity that he took the name Abb? Pierre. In 1944 he moved to Algiers to join...
...Congo's 60 million people prepared for the country's first free elections in four decades. Officially, war ended in 2003. But the aftershocks of one of Africa's most devastating conflagrations go on. Rebel militias continue to rape and murder, especially in the country's East. Government troops commit atrocities as well. With the election complete, it's comforting to think that the world has done its part and can now leave Congo to get on with righting itself. But the country still desperately needs help: to end the lingering violence, distribute revenues from the country's vast natural...