U.S. Tourists Visiting Panda Reserve Reported Safe
redorbit.com     May 15, 2008            

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Wendy Koch Twelve U.S. tourists who were visiting a panda-breeding reserve in China on Monday survived the country's magnitude-7.9 earthquake unhurt. "We were able to make contact with them" early Wednesday by satellite phone, said Kerry Zobor,... [read full story]                

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