The young mother cried out to her 2-year-old son buried beneath the rubble: "Mom is coming to you!"

She yelled in a language I do not know, but I slowed my car after NPR's Melissa Block translated. For a few minutes that lasted forever, I listened to the time-lapse account of two Chinese parents' anguish that portrayed every parent's greatest fear.

I heard Fu Guanyu's screams for help as the rescue workers dug through the debris of their collapsed apartment building i ...

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