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...Xinjian Elementary School surrounded by mud, debris, twisted metal and slabs of concrete. The 70-year-old has kept vigil in the city of Dujiangyan for the better part of a day after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake rocked China's Sichuan province on May 12, flattening the school his grandson attended. "After the quake hit, I ran to the school and started removing rubble," Zhang says. "I uncovered several children. Some were dead, some were still alive. But I couldn't find my grandson." Unlike many of the other parents and relatives waiting in the rain, Zhang seems drained...
...once the city of Dujiangyan's Xinjian elementary school, surrounded by mud, debris, twisted metal and slabs of concrete. The 70-year-old has kept vigil for the better part of a day after the school was flattened by the May 12 earthquake. He's looking for his grandson but not really expecting to find him. "After the quake hit, I ran to the school and started removing rubble," Zhang says. "I uncovered several children. Some were dead, some still alive. But I couldn't find my grandson." Unlike many others waiting in the steady drizzle, Zhang seems to have...
...does the X7 make foolproof crema? "Pressure--this is the old story," says Andrea Illy, 43, a grandson of the company's founder. After years of research, "we ended up discovering we had to change the way espresso was prepared." Thus was born illy's iperEspresso brewing system. The X7 brews shots from capsules you purchase--prepacked plastic thimbles that hold about 7 g of espresso. Though the system sounds similar to what a competitor, Nespresso, has been selling for years, illy says the X7 has a unique, two-stage process: hot water is injected into a chamber and infuses...
...Zhang Xuede, 70, has kept vigil here for the better part of a day, since a 7.9-magnitude earthquake rocked this stretch of China's Sichuan province, killing at nearly 15,000 and injuring 26,000. Zhang's grandson was in class at the Xinjian school when the quake hit. In the aftermath, Zhang rushed to the collapsed school and helped lift students out of the rubble. "I uncovered several children," he says. "Some were dead, some were still alive. But I couldn't find my grandson." More than 24 hours and a night of cold rain later, Zhang still...
...sometimes wear, originating in pre-Islamic times when the Turks were nomadic horsemen in Central Asia. Their circular prayer rooms, veneration of horses and participation in sports such as javelin throwing, all predate the quasi-Shi'ite form of Islam they later adopted (Alevi means "follower of Ali," the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad venerated in Shi'ism). They say the Koran is open to interpretation, and temper its teachings with such Alevi dictums as "control your hand, your groin and your tongue...