Survival of quake victims depends on many factors
                   
wtop.com     May 17, 2008            

By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Now, in China, rescuers are pulling out victims days after they were buried by a powerful earthquake. On Friday, four days after a powerful quake struck central China, rescuers freed a nurse from the debris of a clinic in Beichuan county,... [read full story]                

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