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Blogger Beverly Biehl, an interior decorator, mother and wife, noted, however, that there is some real concern mingling with the outrage. On the Dallas Morning News site this week, she wrote: "The news lately appears to be written by Chicken Little. 'The Sky is Falling! The Dow is Falling! Our Profits are Falling!' It's enough to make you swear off poultry. However, few things can prepare you for the day when your children ask about the headline 'Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression...
...Biehl wrote that her concerned eighth-grader asked, "We don't have any stocks, do we, Mom?" She said she soft-pedaled any concerns about his college fund to stop the panic. Biehl, whose parents filed for bankruptcy when she herself was in college, wrote: "I briefly explained that it's all cyclical." Still, on the Monday of the vote and subsequent market crash, Biehl took a look at her 401(k) and discovered she had lost $6,300. "But then I thought, I have still doubled my money since I first started investing and - as I wrote...
Peter and Katarina set out to discover what purpose really lies behind the discipline under which they are forced to live. He gains what he thinks is a crucial insight when he hears Biehl mention Darwinism, the survival of the fittest, and then add that "we alleviate its consequences." Peter realizes that his classmates, saved and damned, have not grasped Biehl's comment: "Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline...
...query comes from a narrator whose name is Peter (a detail he drops a third of the way through his story). Now a grown man, he looks back on himself at age 14, an orphan who, after a brief lifetime in various institutions, has unexpectedly been sent to Biehl's Academy, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Copenhagen...
Peter recognizes Biehl's as an improvement over the previous places to which he was assigned. There is adequate food, heat in the buildings, and 26 teachers responsible for only 240 students. But there are occasional cuffings for rule infractions or poor lesson performance, plus the dictatorship of clocks and bells: "It was not just the classes and assembly that began on the dot. There was also a study period and the meals and the chores and voluntary sports and lights-out and when you had to get up if you were to manage a proper wash...