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...need of rescue, she said.This idea dates back to King Philip’s War, a conflict between American settlers and Native Americans in the 1670s, Faludi said. According to her, it was a time in which pre-revolutionary Americans were forced to fend for their lives on a constant basis by the original “terrorists”—a phrase she said the settlers used to describe the Native Americans. This phenomenon began the tradition of historical rewriting by male authors, which she described as an effort to glorify the hyper-masculine settler who supposedly...
...Trouser People. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer, stalked by disease and malnutrition. Inflation lurched ever upwards. Schools and hospitals crumbled with neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The brightest Burmese sought lives abroad. The only real constant was the junta, which had seized power in 1962 and run a promising nation into the ground...
...coal-fired power plants began operating. "Their whole lives they had wished for electricity." Be careful what you wish for. Soon after the plant opened, Dang's wife developed a cough from the thick black smoke from the power plant that hung over the town. His children had near-constant runny noses and neighbors reported other nagging health problems. When Vietnam's government announced plans to add a second coal-fired generator in 2005, villagers didn't celebrate. "The people cried out," Dang says...
...eager to talk, and I quickly formed lasting friendships. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer and were stalked by disease and malnutrition. Schools and hospitals crumbled from neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The only real constant has been the junta, which seized power in 1962 and has run a promising nation into the ground. But there have been some positive changes too. A 2004 internal purge dealt a blow to a once fearsome spy network. A year later, the regime moved to a remote new capital...
This mundane and continuous task contrasts strikingly with the emotional heaviness of the setting and the constant threat of a sudden end to Max and Horst’s lives...