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...room is a pencil drawing of the family he lost on May 12. An art student drew it from the ID cards of Zhang's wife Wu Shanshan, 33, and their daughter Zhang Duo, 6. All other photos were lost in the rubble of Beichuan, a mountain town where 15,000 perished. An 8-ft.-tall (2.5 m) fence now surrounds the town to keep people out, lest they be harmed by still frequent landslides. Former residents gather on the hills, lighting incense and firecrackers for their kin entombed in the collapsed buildings and mud below...
...Father While Zhang works to rebuild Beichuan, Lu Shihua toils to figure out why the town collapsed. The single father, 40, lost his only child when the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School crumbled. His wife had died 16 years earlier giving birth to their daughter Lu Fang, and Lu had resolved to raise her on his own. It is with a similar determination that Lu now fights for an answer to why the 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...
...Shopkeeper A short walk from where Lu's daughter died, a temporary town has sprouted. Nearly 4,000 residents from the mountainside village of Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses, among which Luo Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her boyfriend Yang Yong had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says...
...Deng Zhuyuan Sat with his family outside a foot-massage parlor in the devastated town of Hanwang, resigned to the fact that he would soon find his mother's corpse. As rescuers moved debris with a crane, Deng, 18, told me in nearly flawless English about life in his mountain town, about how he was preparing for his college-entrance exams before the quake struck. Eventually I left to walk through the wreckage of Hanwang. When I returned to where Deng was waiting, two covered corpses were lying outside the massage parlor. A family member identified Deng's mother. Deng...
Doug Morrell had already installed solar panels on his house in Coopersville, Mich., but he was eager to get a little bit greener. So the 52-year-old Navy veteran bought something that might seem more at home in the Dutch countryside than in a small town in western Michigan: a personal wind turbine. The 33-ft.-high (10 m) machine, whose blades span 7 ft. (2 m) in diameter, sits next to the pole barn 100 yd. (90 m) from Morrell's home. (Turbines like Morrell's convert the energy of the wind to electricity, while old windmills...