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当自然暴露出野性,生命在废墟中飘零 　　2008年5月12日14点28分，四川汶川，一场里氏8.0级的地震袭来。无数生命在那一刻永远逝去，许多曾经美丽安宁的村庄顿时变成了一片片惨不忍睹的废墟…… 　　灾难面前，我们感受着生命的渺小和脆弱，更惊叹于生命的伟大和神奇。灾难让我们懂得：活着真好！灾难更让我们思考：怎样才能活得有意义？――珍惜拥有，努力活得充实精彩！ 　　亲爱的读者们，当你们看到这篇文章时，距离地震发生已经过去了两个多月。都说时间能够慢慢抚平创伤，但愿这篇文章不会再次刺痛那些正在愈合的“伤口”。因为选择直面可怕的灾难，为的是学会更加坚强勇敢地面对生活，进而创建更美好的家园！ 　　心手相连，我们永远在一起！ 　　――Maisie 　　 　　The doctor told the 10-year-old boy his legs would have to be 2)sawed off. Although trapped in rubble, the boy refused. “If you have to cut off my legs, I want to die,” he said. “I don’t want to live without my legs.” 　　The doctor promised the boy he would try his best to save him some other way. Six hours later, rescue workers 3)pried the boy loose. They put him in an ambulance. The boy’s heart stopped three times on the two-hour drive from this mountain town(Beichuan) down to the city of Mianyang. Each time, the doctors managed to restart it. Then they reached the hospital. There, while the boy was 4)sedated, the doctors cut off his legs. 　　“When he woke up and realized he no longer had his legs, he didn’t cry,” Jiang Zelong, a 19-year-old volunteer who had accompanied the rescue team, told me later. “When he felt pain, he held my hand tight, so tight, and he never shouted out.” 　　Over the last two weeks, while I was reporting on the earthquake that has killed at least 56,000 people and left 5 million others homeless in this rural 5)swath of southwest China, I heard a constant 6)refrain from my friends and colleagues: This can’t possibly compare to what you saw in Iraq. 　　I left Baghdad almost a year ago after a long 7)tour there. I then spent some months studying Mandarin in 8)Vermont and Taiwan. It was enough time away from work and in 9)bucolic places to allow me to think that when I landed in Beijing in late April to start my new assignment, I had put behind me much of the ugliness of the war: 10)morgues filled with corpses 11)shredded by 12)shrapnel, 13)mosques demolished by suicide 14)car bombs, the fear of random death that