While the building may be old, the attitude and decor are hip, young and fashion forward at the 30-room Le Bourg Tibourg hotel.

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But amid all the misery, rescuers continue to have their efforts rewarded -- a woman and her one-year-old baby were pulled almost unscathed from the rubble of a collapsed building, as was a young man who'd spent a-hundred-and-three hours without food or water.

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