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Bock to School,Back on Their Feet 　　HE violent earthquake that ripped through Wenchuan three years ago caught schoolchildren amid their lessons in packed classrooms.Falling ceilings and collapsing floorsensured many didnt make it out,and the few who did make narrow escapes were leftwith lasting wounds to their bodies,hearts and minds. 　　The losses and woes of local children drew the attention and sympathy of the nation.Six daysafter the disaster the China Youth Development Foundation set up the first Post-quake Schoolof Hope in Zundao Town,Mianzhu City,in the epicenter area.Now more than 3,oo0 schoolshave been rebuilt in the province,buttressing the sense of recovery everyone in academic circlesis struggling to feel while still torn between remembering and forgetting.Wisdom beyond Her Years 　　Li Lu,a 17-year-old,smiles fromher wheelchair at the back of the class.She was assigned the seat for its easyaccess to the rear door.Li was a sev-enth grader at Juyuan Middle Schoolin Dujiangyan City at the time of the2008 earthquake,which killed 283of her schoolmates.Pulled out of therubble six hours later,she kept her lifebut lost her right arm and right leg.The intervening years have healed herphysically and psychologically.Thoughbashful toward reporters,she is kuown among her friendsas a happy,confident girl who lifts the spirits of otherswith her jokes and pranks. 　　Li Lu feels she is tougher than she was before the disas-ter.After a brush with death you will find there is noth-ing much left to be afraid of, she confided.Eager to showshe is not consumed by self-pity,the petite teenager haslearnt to write and do daily chores with her left hand.Nowshe uses it to write and to draw cartoons that are way betterthan most kids her age could produce. 　　Li Lu plans to study cartoon art in college in Beijing orChengdu,the provincial capital.Now in the first year of se-nior high school,she feels the mounting pressure to study,but presses on with plan to provide her parents a