Man miraculously survives under rubble\nBAM, Iran -- A 57-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of this earthquake-shattered Iranian city, barely conscious but still alive after 13 days thanks to a nearby source of water.\nIt was not known how Jalil got water, but the doctor said the ruins of the home where he was found were wet.\n"It's a miracle," Dr. Mahdi Shadnoush said Thursday of the rescue of the man, who was identified only as Jalil. "He had no access to food but only water."\nA sense of normalcy was slowly returning to Bam as hundreds of workers cleared the main streets, banks opened and street lights were kept lit, even in the day, to demonstrate the improving situation since the 6.6-magnitude quake hit on Dec. 26, killing more than 30,000 people.
Second SARS case of the year confirmed\nGUANGZHOU, China -- A waitress hospitalized in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was declared the country's second suspected SARS case of the season on Thursday, just as the first patient was pronounced recovered and released.\nThe 20-year-old waitress was hospitalized with a fever on Dec. 31, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said she was under quarantine in Guangzhou's No. 8 People's Hospital.\nThe announcement that she was officially a suspected case came just minutes after Xinhua reported that China's first SARS patient of the season, a 32-year-old television producer, left a Guangzhou hospital after being declared recovered.
Palestine proposes one state\nJERUSALEM -- Palestinians will give up their goal of independence and push instead for a single Arab-Jewish state if Israel carries out its threat to unilaterally impose a new boundary with Palestinian areas, the Palestinian premier said Thursday.\nA single country including Gaza, the West Bank and Israel would spell disaster for the Jewish state because the country would soon have an Arab majority.\nThat would force Israel to choose between giving Palestinians the right to vote and risk losing the country's Jewish character, or becoming a minority-ruled country like apartheid South Africa.\nU.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell immediately rejected the idea of a single state on Thursday, saying only a two-country solution to the violence would work.
