Trapped Chinese miners ate coal, drank urine to stay alive
Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou finally clawed their way to the
surface after nearly six days underground - a rare tale of
survival in China's coal mines, the world's deadliest, where an
average of 13 workers are killed every day.  The two even
managed to crack jokes about their wives remarrying once they
were dead after they emerged Friday from the illegal mine -
which had no oxygen, ventilation or emergency exits - in
Beijing's Fangshan district.  'At the beginning, our cell phone
still had power so there was a little bit of light. Two days
later, the battery ran out so we could only feel with our
fingers and listen,' the brothers told the state-run Beijing
News in a report published Tuesday.   If those workers are found
dead, it would be among the worst accidents of its kind in 58
years of communist rule, second only to an explosion that killed
214 miners in 2005. The government has pledged to improve
safety, but owners flout safety rules and ill