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...People left homeless by the quake are now housed in 2,885 locations. They are spread across the disaster area; few have any idea of when they will be able to return home. Many towns and cities in this part of central Sichuan province were ravaged by the tremor, and along with the buildings that were flattened, many more will have to be demolished...
...soon China will be faced with an equally monumental task: how to house the 4.8 million people who have been left homeless by the quake. As a result, victims are living anywhere they can. Public spaces of towns in the disaster zone are filled with tents. The Sichuan Ministry of Civil Affairs says it has provided 30,000 tents, but most are living in homemade structures built out of the red, white and blue plastic used for shopping bags in China. In Chengdu, many people sleep under highway overpasses. On the way to Yanmen village, where 10,000 people were...
...official rescue efforts have stopped at the Juyuan Middle School, where at least 600 students were trapped during the violent earthquake in China's Sichuan province, which will leave an estimated 4.8 million people homeless, Chinese authorities said today. But while the workers have left the site of the three-story building in the village of Juyuan, neighbors and parents still gather here to try to comprehend why the children who went off to class Monday disappeared under tons of broken concrete. Some scramble over the debris, searching for any reminders of the dead. Others stand in the muddy, trash...
...zone is ready to accuse the local officials of corruption, but they are still demanding answers. "It's a question we are asking," says Feng Jianyun, 34, who was sitting outside the Jiuzhou Sports Center in Mianyang, which has been turned into a center for thousands of people left homeless by the quake. "How could a place with so many people inside not be built better? That's what I want to know. We should not forget a lesson that has been learned in blood." with reporting by Lin Yang/Dujiangyan
...fossil fuels, the bigger our carbon footprints; unsurprisingly, Americans, who are responsible for more than 20 tons of CO2 per capita annually, have some of the biggest feet in the world. How big? A recent study by a class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that even a homeless American would have a carbon footprint of 8.5 tons--twice the global average. "We have contributed more than our fair share to this problem," says Katherine Wroth, a senior editor at the green website Grist.org "It seems logical that we would want to contribute to the solution...