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Humor in the face of adversity is something Australians regard as a national trait. And snippets of information that reached the public from the rescue mission at Beaconsfield gold mine, in northeast Tasmania, probably pumped more life into that notion. Miners Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, were trapped...
Though all these factors would have helped the pair stay calm while trapped, they may have little bearing on whether the men experience psychological ill effects in the future. "It wasn't in their interests to lose it [while they were underground]," says University of Queensland psychiatrist Brett McDermott, "but...
PTSD can manifest as alcoholism, disregard for one's health and deteriorating relationships. Nightmares may plague the miners, says disaster expert Raphael, as might survivor guilt connected with the death of their colleague, Larry Knight, 44, who was operating the machine to which Webb and Russell's cage was attached...
That afternoon, Jones poured out nearly a thousand cups of Kool Aid laced with cyanide and, in an excruciating parody of the Eucharist, told the faithful to take and drink. They were committing, he said, "an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." In the detritus...
ThinkFilmDirected by David Jacobson 3.5 starsNot much more you could ask of someone than to take responsibility for their actions,” says the cowboy, with characteristic Old West chivalry. “That, and not breaking the law with a minor,” retorts the angry, modern...