Robin Scholz
Sue Ye, left, who works in Champaign, talks Wednesday about the death of her father, Chang Ming Ye, in Monday's earthquake in China. Qingyan Tian, right, a University of Illinois graduate student, anxiously waits for word about friends who live in the affected area.
URBANA – For nearly three days, the phone has been Sue Ye's lifeline, the news reports a link to home in the worst way.
Though she works for Coldwell Banker Devonshire in Champaign, her homeland is China, in the city of Dujiang Yan, a city now in ruins after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Sichuan province.
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