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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Dust washers in India sweep streets for flecks of gold

Reporting from Ahmadabad, India Like her mother and grandmother before her, Ganga Gohel, 80, crouches in a narrow alley, carefully working an 8-inch brush over the cracked concrete with gnarled hands, her back permanently bent after a lifetime on the job.

In a nation where thoroughfare...