A mother wails while holding a framed photograph of her child, one of 127 children killed in the collapse of Fuxing Number Two Elementary School in Mianzhu.

The Children of China's Quake

The shoddy construction of many schools in the quake zone contributed to countless deaths, created scores of grieving parents and a political quandary for the Chinese leadership

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