Ecuador digs for survivors of quake that killed 246

Rescuers in Ecuador burrowed through deep rubble Sunday in an increasingly desperate attempt to find survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 246 people and allowed scores of inmates to escape prison. Although the oil-producing South American nation frequently suffers seismic shudders because of its position on the so-called Ring of Fire that skirts much of the Pacific basin, the quake -- though it lasted just one minute -- was the worst in nearly 40 years in Ecuador. Some 100 inmates in