Left: Members of the Rotary Club of Fukushima South deliver supplies to a hard hit area.

左：南福岛扶轮社社员提供物资进入灾区。

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Xiao Fuhua, 33, whose wife and three children are in Liangshan, an area in southern Sichuan Province that is not supposed to be hard hit, said he had been unable to reach his family at all.

肖福华(谐音)今年33岁，他的妻子和三个孩子所在的地区是四川省南部地区凉山，据说那里的受灾情况并不是很严重。他说至今他还没能和家里取得联系。

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In hard-hit Philadelphia, for instance, the number of reporters covering the metropolitan area is down to 220, half the 1980 figure.

比如在费城，大都市地区的记者数量降至220，比1980年减少了一半。

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His latest role as the U.N. special envoy for Haiti has taken him twice to the earthquake-ravaged island nation and he is leading efforts to raise money for the hard-hit area.

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During a stop in Warren, Michigan, Obama blasted McCain for not offering policies that would help to revitalize an area hard hit by the decline of the domestic auto industry.

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However, the closure of the smokehouse went ahead, and job losses hit the area hard.

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