Quotes and bites from life's edge

The race against time to save lives began ever since the Wenchuan earthquake struck a great part of Sichuan as well as neighboring Gansu, Shaanxi and Yunnan provinces on May 12.

As we watch the whole rescue operation unfold through the media, many of us cannot help shedding tears over the great tragedy that the natural disaster has caused and, above all, over the great sacrifice a lot of people have made while working on the frontline.

We hear about Huang Baowu, a doctor who, though losing nine members of his family, quickly joined a local medical team to treat the wounded. He did not even have time to dress his own wounds, as the camera caught the blood on his right foot on Sunday.