Rescues Beat Dimming Odds in Haiti.

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Despite dimming odds, rescue workers pulled more people alive from the rubble — including a 7-year-old girl who survived more than four days eating dried fruit rolls in the supermarket that collapsed around her — as water and emergency aid deliveries improved on Sunday, though not nearly enough to meet Haiti’s desperate need.

The mood managed to stay mostly calm, as residents carried leather-bound Bibles to pray outside their ruined churches. . .

On the fifth day after the earthquake, there were signs of improvement, possibly even hope that the worst was passing. Traffic at the airport continued to increase, and there were 27 rescue teams on the ground, with 1,500 people searching for survivors.

The best news came in the form of a small voice from deep in a pile of rubble at the Caribbean Supermarket in the Delmas neighborhood, heard overnight late Saturday or early Sunday. As the odds of finding more survivors fell steeply, American and Turkish rescue workers were stunned to discover a small Haitian girl, who proudly told them that she made it through with hope and leathery fruit snacks. . .

At the airport, American military officials said that waiting times for landing had declined, while traffic had increased. . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/world/americas/18quake.html?pagewanted=1&hp