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Japan Nuclear Reactor Stabilized and Woman Found Alive After Nine Days

One nuclear plant is now stabilized—and, miraculously, a woman and her grandson were found alive after nine days in the rubble. Lennox Samuels reports on the country’s small successes.

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Sumi Abe, 80, is carried on a stretcher to Red Cross Hospital in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, after she and his grandson Jiin, 16, were rescued Sunday, March 20, 2011. (The Yomiuri Shimbun / AP Photo),Masanori Yamashita

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