Last of Chilean miners is raised safely to surface

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | 8:15 p.m. CDT; updated 9:44 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, October 13, 2010

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was raised from the depths of the earth Wednesday night — a joyous ending to a 69-day ordeal that riveted the world. No one has ever been trapped so long and survived.

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