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...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
...mother's body. He sits on a railing with his grandmother, a cotton mask over his mouth and a camouflage hat on his head. "It's a tragedy," he says, his voice finally cracking. "You must cherish life. You must cherish every moment you are alive." With reporting by Lin Yang...
...reporter said he rushed outside after the earthquake hit at 2:28 p.m. to find "streets crowded with people, and a woman who fled from her home in such haste that she wasn't even fully dressed." With reporting by Lin Yang/Beijing
...prison, Htein Lin struggled constantly and ingeniously to gather art supplies. Using a nail, he scratched poems and sketches on plastic that could only be seen when held up to sunlight. When sympathetic guards brought him house paint and syringes from the prison infirmary, he used those to create swirling, Jackson Pollock-like patterns. "If I had a lot of colors, I'd use them. If I only had black or brown, I'd use it," he says. During his seven months on death row, fellow inmates donated their sarongs - the only clothing allowed them - so that he would have...
...Just as Olivier Messiaen's time in a Nazi prison camp forced the French composer to experiment with novel orchestrations, Htein Lin's years in prison gave him a technique uniquely adapted to privation. Even after his release, he has continued to paint in the primitive, almost childlike style he developed in jail. "He has this need to fill his canvases with as much as he can," Weber says, "because he may not have another chance." In a recent painting of his adopted home, for instance, Htein Lin depicts London as a chaotic welter of traffic and pedestrians. Every inch...