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BEICHUAN, China - China marked the first anniversary of a massive earthquake on Tuesday in a somber, nationally televised ceremony filled with flowers and speeches, as the normally distant Chinese leadership provided an unusually cathartic public moment.
The 30-minute memorial service in front of a destroyed school in the Sichuan province town of Yingxiu followed a minute of silence that began at 2:28 p.m. (1:28 a.m. CDT), the moment the magnitude- 7.9 temblor shook China - and some countries beyond - on May 12, 2008.See the full content of this document
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China Takes Rare Notice of Quake
Villages were toppled or buried and landslides raked mountains as large portions of Sichuan - where the quake was centere...
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