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...Father While Zhang works to rebuild Beichuan, Lu Shihua toils to figure out why the town collapsed. The single father lost his only child, daughter Lu Fang, when the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School crumbled. His wife had died 16 years earlier giving birth to her and Lu had resolved to raise the girl on his own. Friends and relatives, including his mother-in-law, offered to help the farmer find a new bride. "I turned them all down," he says. "I could not risk any possibility of my daughter being mistreated by a stepmother...
...with a similar determination that Lu fights for an answer to why the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School caved in, crushing his daughter. Lu had just had lunch with her in town an hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move as he waited for a bus back to their mountain village. Rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak, but as soon as the tremors eased he ran to the school. "The five-story building was completely flattened and young, broken bodies were everywhere," he says. "There were parents here and there, crying and digging for their children...
...Four days later Lu found his daughter's body in the rubble of the school. He identified her by a pair of cloth shoes, which had been handmade by her grandmother. "Just what evil have I done to deserve this?" he asks. "I already feel very guilty for my wife's death - she died giving birth to my daughter. For my daughter, I had not gotten close to any woman for 10 years, and now she is taken away from me, too." A few days after identifying his child's corpse, Lu posted petitions at earthquake shelters calling...
...Their stuff is really original while still being marketable,” he says. An internship in the buying department of fashion label Gucci proved unrewarding because it didn’t allow Parent to exercise his artistic inclinations, but he enjoyed his work in Shanghai with designer Lu Kun. As a result, Parent has one condition for his future career: “I need it to be creative...
...power-packed sentence: Take these medications daily until all are gone, or you will die. If many millions of women can remember to take a birth control pill every day for years, surely those with TB can be convinced to take their medication correctly for six months. Merri Lu Park, ABADIANIA, BRAZIL