Tiny Graves

I'm not really looking at the pictures of the kids who have died in China.  I'm skimming through them quickly, but I can't pause and stare. It doesn't take much for me to imagine a little blond boy in the rubble, and then I fall apart.

It's actually easier to read about the vulnerability of schools in developing nations, because then it gives us something to do.

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[Doug]

Extra unbearability points? James Fallows at the Atlantic reminds us that the one-child policy means that those were many parents' only child, and very possibly the four grandparents' only grandchild.