AS SEEN ON EARTH: Quake, Swine Flu, West Bank in Photos

AS SEEN ON EARTH: Quake, Swine Flu, West Bank in Photos
AS SEEN ON EARTH: Quake, Swine Flu, West Bank in Photos
AS SEEN ON EARTH: Quake, Swine Flu, West Bank in Photos
AS SEEN ON EARTH: Quake, Swine Flu, West Bank in Photos
AS SEEN ON EARTH: Quake, Swine Flu, West Bank in Photos
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Beichuan County, Sichuan Province, China, April 24, 2009--Nearly a year after a devastating earthquake claimed some 90,000 lives, much of this county still lies in rubble.

The Sichuan government has said that it could cost U.S. $250 billion (€185 billion) to reconstruct the province's damaged buildings.

View more photographs of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

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—Photograph from China Photos via Getty Images
 

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