Word: fatherness
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...collapsed Dujiangyan City Chinese Medicine Hospital, rescue workers raced death as they laboriously tried to lift crushing slabs of concrete to get to victims pinned in the debris pile. A woman waited outside for news of her seven kin who were visiting her father at the hospital when the quake struck. The woman says she heard her father call from the rubble the day of the disaster. The following morning he called out again, this time saying, "I don't think I can hold out much longer." When night fell in Dujiangyan, a loudspeaker truck cruised the streets broadcasting...
...late 1969, when the world was a much bigger, less connected place and his rival coaches were enjoying their summer holidays, Gibson took the extraordinary step of attending a National Football League conference in Hawaii. He'd felt an affinity with the U.S., having grown up believing that his father's uncle, Hugh Cooper Gibson, was Secretary of State to President Woodrow Wilson. (Much later, he learned that his great-uncle had been merely a senior official in the State Department at that time...
...such a stroke of inspiration for Schultz and co-creator Christian Jacobs, 36, to use them as the basis for Yo Gabba Gabba!, their popular and quirky show on Nick Jr. that teaches preschoolers life's important lessons. Schultz and Jacobs, who's also a father, figured a show like this was overdue. "[Kids' shows] needed a new generation of hip parents," Jacobs says, "not a bunch of executives doing research." So six years ago, they set about tackling the job themselves...
...TIME 100 winners attended, the toasts offered moving moments. John McCain paid tribute to his "compatriots" Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Lance Armstrong extolled the work of the oncologist Dr. Harold Freeman. PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi honored her two daughters, while Robert Downey Jr. tearfully thanked his father, filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. It was a sparkling evening--like the TIME 100 issue come to life. And it began with a performance by legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, was punctuated by a hilariously topical dialogue between Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers and ended with...
...hour later, almost exactly three days after the quake struck, the soldiers pull out two bodies from the massage parlor. A crowd gathers on the street to watch, and more soldiers come to prevent the emotional scene from overflowing. Deng learns that his father has identified his mother's body. He sits on a railing with his grandmother, a cotton mask over his mouth and a camouflage hat on his head. "It's a tragedy," he says, his voice finally cracking. "You must cherish life. You must cherish every moment you are alive." With reporting by Lin Yang