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HOME > PAST ISSUE > COVER STORY [Premium content]February 2005
Anyone who has experienced the feeling of losing a child swept up in a crowded street has had a moment's glimpse of the agony brought on by December's tsunami that ripped across South Asia.
The horror of the real thing is that only a relatively few survivors experienced the unmatched joy of seeing loved ones returned.
So many survivors lost so many loved ones that the additional loss of home and livelihood hardly seemed to matter. Surviving disasters often leaves deep psychological scars. But fighting to survive and helping others to survive is fundamental to the human spirit - in China, no less than anywhere else.
At writing, China's toll was 10 missing ...
So many survivors lost so many loved ones that the additional loss of home and livelihood hardly seemed to matter. Surviving disasters often leaves deep psychological scars. But fighting to survive and helping others to survive is fundamental to the human spirit - in China, no less than anywhere else.
At writing, China's toll was 10 missing ...
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