Last May 12th and for a month afterwards, most of China's populous Sichuan Province shook as a huge fault deep under a mountain range began to move. Tens of millions were displaced, 80,000 died and 230,000 were injured. Among the dead and injured were 5000-7000 students at a number of flimsily built schools which collapsed.
The Chinese Government's response, under Premier Wen JiaBao, an engineer, was remarkably open to allowing news media access to quake areas and quake victims; the Government...
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