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zone as quakes, fires hamper rescue  By Stuart Biggs and Aaron
Sheldrick  Bloomberg News   Hundreds of cars streamed south of
Japanese areas devastated by last week's earthquake and tsunami
as technicians battled to contain fires and radiation leaks at
the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station.  In the city of
Sendai, near the epicenter of the March 11 temblor that was
Japan's strongest on record, vehicles were wrapped four-high in
places around the airport's perimeter fence. The top floor of a
two-story house dragged from its foundations as the 7-meter
(23-foot) wave retreated could be seen in wreckage that was
studded with uprooted trees.  In Fukushima city, capital of the
prefecture where Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers are struggling
to prevent a nuclear meltdown, about 200 people lined up at the
Co-op supermarket to buy provisions. The queue at a local
gasoline station stretched for more