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...They were the lucky ones. Another resident, Girish Sanghani, managed to crawl free from the debris, but his wife Bhavna and their son were entombed under a pile of broken concrete slabs. Miraculously, Bhavna survived the initial collapse. Following her faint cries, Sanghani and rescue workers clawed a hole through the rubble, wide enough to pass down a lamp and a cup of tea?but not large enough to liberate the woman. "She is trapped in a fetal position cradling her child," said rescue worker Nishant Chidda. "We believe the child is dead. Otherwise, she would've passed...
...after the earthquake jolted the subcontinent?it was felt as far away as Nepal and Bangladesh?the cries of the trapped victims began to grow faint throughout western India. In Ahmedabad, distraught parents flocked to a school which imploded, trapping 39 children and several teachers inside. Rescue workers said that during the first wave of tremors, the children were herded into a stairwell. Then the walls came tumbling down. "My only son is in there," wailed one woman. "I know he's still alive." But her hope dimmed every time firemen and volunteers extracted another tiny corpse from the site...
...hangs over one shoulder. In a far corner, his civil servants sit on the floor, leafing through papers. To his right, ferocious-looking warriors listen intently, while an obsequious secretary tries hard to finish his master's sentences and is rewarded by Pachakhan with a look of withering disdain. Faintly bored by questions about al-Qaeda strength?it's hard to tell, he shrugs?he livens up a little when asked how much he spends a day to keep his provinces working. "I don't keep count of such things," he says, then adds with a faint smile that...
...They get half, or part way through [with their test], and they faint or fall ill with exhaustion," he said...
Systematic errors in machine reading of ballots almost universally result in undercounting. They occur, for example, when a chad does not separate from the ballot card or when a mark on an optically scanned form is too faint. Manual counting in precincts that use machine voting thus increases the number of votes tabulated for both parties. Machines do not favor one candidate or the other, and the percentage of votes obtained by each party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention...