Last summer, from villages in the hills of Sichuan province near the center of yesterday's earthquake. These are the kinds of people who have been affected:
1) Ethnic Tibetan children playing on the way home from school (click for larger):
2) Other children getting a ride home in a truck:
3) Men waiting for a bus:
4) Dr. Tang Chunxiang, who has lived at the panda reserve in Wolong for more than 20 years and who told me, "The more I know the panda, the more I love the panda." As best I know, there has been no communication with that reserve since the earth quake -- road blocked, telephone and internet lines down, wireless phone coverage out. Update: according to CCTV at 7:30pm China time, the pandas in a base outside Chengdu, and their care-takers are fine, but there are not yet reports from the main panda reserve in Wolong.
