Word: despairful
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Some cities still carry scars from past blackouts that turned into festivals of looting and despair. But it was clear that we are living in new times, when at 4:09 Thursday afternoon the power flickered and died in the largest black-out in North American history, and instead of exploding, the cities fell quiet. Horns didn't honk. Though there were nasty exceptions here and there, shopkeepers didn't gouge, and windows didn't shatter, and most of the fires were coming off grills. Ottawa saw more looting than Detroit or Toledo. The latest test of people's nerve...
...right there," says Hall. Later, Fogle risked his own life driving a coal scooper into a cataract to rescue miner Mark Popernack, who was stranded on the other side. It is Fogle who is acknowledged to have kept his crew focused, adamantly refusing to let them give in to despair. If anyone epitomized their fierce solidarity, which Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker captured in the phrase "Nine for nine" before he had even met them, Fogle...
...month of Bob Long, an expert surveyor who aided the rescue and received his own deal from Disney after being touted on TV as "the man behind the miracle." Long's uneasy relationship with the miners--he called them "bastards" once--may have had something to do with his despair, although the parties are said to have reconciled before his death. Fogle, echoing the off-the-record comments of his colleagues, will say only, "It's a shame. Everyone did such a good job to get us out, and then something like that happens...
Jack and Joe both lose their jobs and their girlfriends. Rotten luck. Then their 401(k)s tank, and their dogs get run over. Argh. But while Jack spirals into despair, Joe takes his losses and eventually bounces back. How do you explain the difference? Depression may seem to be a matter of who's made of sterner stuff, but a new study shows that genes play an important role. Researchers have found that individuals with the short version of a particular gene involved in the production of a key brain chemical are more than twice as likely...
...saved from eternal damnation." In fact, the place is a hell on Eire. The nuns, using their charges as unpaid laborers in a sweatshop laundry, flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, allow a visiting priest to force them into sex, and drive them to despair or madness or flailing rebellion...