China quake survivors rescued as rain threatens millions by Robert J. XIANGQUAN, China (AFP) - The rescue of 40 half-starved people from a remote village 16 days after China's earthquake provided a rare piece of good news on Thursday as rain threatened more misery for millions of survivors. A military helicopter plucked the villagers from their quake-shattered mountain homes on Wednesday after some of them had survived on little more than rice and wild herbs, state press reported. Their rescue was the latest in a string of extraordinary survival stories that have emerged from the horror of the May 12 quake in Sichuan province, which killed over 68,000 people and displaced more than 15 million others. But the enormous scope of dealing with its aftermath remained the main focus on Thursday, as the danger of potentially devastating floods rose again with steady rain falling across the quake zone. The most pressing priority was the draining of a so-called "quake lake", a massive body...