Huge recovery effort revives China's quake zone – General

www.washingtonpost.com — At the House of Sunshine, the family of middle school teacher Zhang Xia, 40, is settling into a 1,000 square-foot (100 square-meter) apartment. Since the quake they have lived in a prefabricated unit and a tent before that."It has been scary at times, but now we finally feel like we're home," Zhang said.

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