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Chinese Students Return to School Near Quake Epicenter
June 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

The first students have begun returning to school in Wenchuan, China, the epicenter of last month’s devastating earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people. Many of the dead were schoolchildren who were crushed when poorly constructed school buildings collapsed in the quake. Read more….

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