Green plastic bags dug out of the rubble were stuffed with rolls of microfilm and the tattered pages of books for cushions.

But she found herself standing instead in the narrow plastic coffin of a phone booth, scanning the tattered white pages of the phone book for the street address of Jordan McAfee.

His eyes traveled from the filthy, tattered page to my face.

She wanted to be scratched and scribbled into increasingly tattered pages, where she would remain illegible, mysterious and largely unretriev able.

In all likelihood, there is also an age-swollen date book around, its tattered pages as busy as a Jackson Pollock canvas.

In an adjacent room, a tattered page from an undated Flying magazine listed the flight training schools in the United States.

Balancing the phone, Bill Black turned the tattered, watercrumbled pages of the phone book until he got to the Rs.

He is quoted as saying that he still has the worn-out, tattered pages of this much-loved and influential paperback on his bookshelf.

In his wallet, he carries the band's picture, a folded and tattered page torn from a magazine.

Back in Shanghai, the team were very touched by the words on the tattered pages, in which Ma Yan described her wishes to continue to attend school and help her family.