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Fireworks explode above the Sea if Dvuny at the National Stadium, also known as the Birds Nest, during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, China, 06 September 2008.  EPA/DIEGO AZUBEL

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Picture made available on 04 June 2008 shows a grab and a bulldozer work to clear the algae off the sea in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, 01 July 2008.  China has mobilized thousands of workers and soldiers to clean up an algae bloom, threatening Olympic sailing events in Qingdao.  EPA/JOHN WONG

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Earthquake survivors carry their rations of flour back to their village on the way to Qingchuan, China's southwest Sichuan province, 12 June 2008. 12 June 2008 marks one-month since the 7.9 earthquake occurred and China continues to face the overwhelming challenge of housing and feeding the 5 million refugees as well as cleaning up numerous townships that have been annihilated.

The official death toll from the 12 May earthquake is almost 70,000 people with about 17,500 others still missing and over 374,000 injured. EPA/DIEGO AZUBEL
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Chinese workers walk inside a tunnel for the track-doubling project on the Xining-Golmud line in Huangyuan county in northwest China's Qinghai province 06 June 2008. The project on the Tibetan Plateau kicked off in last September will increase the rail line capacity to 137,000 tons of cargo and 20 pairs of passenger trains a day by its completion in five years. EPA/ANGHAI JIN

Sichuan earthquake survivor

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A picture made available 27 May 2008 shows a woman standing on the rooftop of a building damaged by the 12 May 2008 earthquake, as workers behind begin to dismantle a water tower that threatens to collapse in Zhundao town, Mianzhu, Sichuan province, China, 26 May 2008.  EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

A very determined looking lady.

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