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...roadsides. Stacks of concrete drainage pipes fill parking lots, while stores do a brisk trade in paint and window frames. Like countless other places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The surface of the Zipingba Reservoir was covered with a brackish film from the tons of boulders and soil loosed...
...working in a village nearby when the tremors hit. The hamlet's 2,000 survivors were cut off from the outside world. Finally Zhang learned that his hometown had been flattened. "Everybody cried, but I couldn't cry," he says. "What would people think?" The next day Zhang trekked six hours to get help. It would be more than a month until he was able to visit the remains of his home. His wife's and daughter's bodies were never found. "Now I put all of myself into my work," he says. "The dead, there's nothing...
Deng has done just that. When we met six months later, it was at the new campus of Sichuan University, where he studies electrical engineering. The head of the university had asked him to give a speech commemorating the new school year. "If you're still alive, then there is no reason to despair," he told his classmates and teachers. "I am living, and my life is hopeful." Of the 36 students in his junior high school class, four died in the earthquake. "When we get together, we talk about those four," he says. "But we look to the future...
Harvard also saw trouble at the start of the second half, sending three Crusaders to the free-throw line, but Holy Cross was able to tally three of the six possible points, decreasing its deficit to four points...
Senior co-captain Emily Tay and sophomore Emma Markley, who was named Ivy League Player of the Week, joined Finelli in posting double-digit points, recording 13 apiece. Tay also tallied six assists...