Rescuers Maintain Contact with Chilean Miners

Rescuers Maintain Contact with Chilean Miners
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Sustenance
A special diet was devised for the trapped men to help them adjust to eating solids after living so many days on rationed food. Tubes are used to send messages (mensajes) from relatives to their loved ones.

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