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Mother Nature behaved as everyone warned one day she would, but human nature never fails to surprise. Stripped of safety and comfort, survivors made their choices: greed, mercy, mischief, gallantry, depravity or a surrender to despair. So nurses hand-pumped the ventilators of dying patients after the generators and then the batteries failed, while outside the hospitals, snipers fired at ambulances, and invading looters with guns demanded that doctors turn over whatever drugs they had. Hijackers shot the tires of fleeing vehicles, slapped the spares on after the owners escaped and drove the cars away themselves. Some police officers battled...
...alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion is assailed by supernatural bogeys, including a real-world incarnation of Patrick Bateman, the titular American Psycho. If the pace flags in places, there are the bones of a great book here: Stephen King--style horror imbued with Ellis' trademark narcotized despair...
...never forget what one Chinese friend told me—that the difference between insiders and outsiders looking at China is that outsiders looking at China see hope; insiders see despair. I don't think it has to be that way. Maybe my hopeful attitude just means I’m an outsider who left China too early and lived in the States too long. But I’d like to think that what I see happening in Beijing can happen for the rest of China too. Unfortunately, that’s something that will take longer than...
...before parents despair about the models kids absorb from the culture, they can take heart from the messages 13- year-olds seem to be taking from their parents. In TIME's poll, more than half described their relationship with their parents as being excellent, better than with their teachers or classmates or siblings. A majority described their parents as being very involved in their lives and knowing just about everything that went on, while fewer than 10% described their parents as uninvolved and clueless. They may disagree a bit about when it's appropriate for boys and girls to start...
...impact, mostly on one another, 13-year-old girls really don't intend for their sexuality to be taken seriously. Finally, girls are talking about their own powerful feelings; they have complex and sometimes overwhelming insights into life. Their joy can be great and is visible, but their despair is hidden in solitary late-night crying, journal entries, weight obsessions and, for a few, the secret self-mutilation of cutting...