Powerful Aftershock Hits China; 2 Dead, Hundreds Hurt
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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CHENGDU, China Most of the 8,000 children found alone after China's devastating earthquake have been reunited with their parents, Chinese officials said Friday. (article 2)
Social workers have helped bring together more than 7,000 children and their families since the earthquake struck Sichuan province May 12, said Ye Lu, director of social welfare at the Sichuan provincial Civil Affairs Department. (article 2)
QINGLIAN, China Tangjiashan Lake rose another 5 feet Thursday, about 70 feet from the top of the wall of rock, dirt and trees that holds the reservoir of river water trapped since the May 12 earthquake devastated northern Sichuan province. (article 3)
For the past three days, a phalanx of earth-moving machines and soldiers has been struggling to complete a 300-yard sluice that would relieve pressure on the lake growing behind the landslide dam on the Jian River. (article 3)
BEIJING Mao Zedong famously declared " man must conquer nature and his political heirs have followed his dictum zealously by building dams and other gigantic projects that have altered the landscape of China. (article 5)
China has more dams than any other country, about half of the world's total, and the presence of so many near the epicenter in Sichuan province has been a huge problem. (article 5)
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Story keywords
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Sichuan, province, earthquake, China, Quake |
Source articles
- ABC News: Floods Threaten China; 1.3M May Evacuate (ABCNews, 05/30/2008, 365 words)
- China says families mostly reunited (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/31/2008, 495 words)
- Rain hinders work on rising lake (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/30/2008, 545 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 06/02/2008, 1497 words)
- Seattle Times Newspaper (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/30/2008, 595 words)
- Powerful Aftershock Hits China; 2 Dead, Hundreds Hurt (Washington Post, 06/01/2008, 430 words)
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