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...July 2008 while picking grapes in Riverside County in 110 degrees she complained to her sister of a "headache, nausea and cold sweats." According to the lawsuit, "She continued to work the rest of the day because her employer did not provide any shade and she felt pressured to keep pace with her co-workers. Over the next two weeks, her headache persisted, she became disoriented and was unable to recognize family members, and she was hospitalized on three separate occasions." She died on Aug. 2 last year...
...Kurt Andersen's new book, Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America, examines the economic, political and cultural opportunities to be found in the wake of the financial crises. In this excerpt, the fifth of five pieces to appear on TIME.com, he urges America to keep its edge, even as the recession fades...
...recession ends and the sense of crisis fades, we mustn't lose our freshly, painfully acquired ability to think the unthinkable. We need to keep downside risks in mind, to remember that good times can dramatically end and systems suddenly fail. But in plotting our national reconstruction and reinvention it's just as important - and maybe more so - to imagine the unimaginable on the upside. As we gasp in horror at our half glass of water, we really can - must - see it as half full as well as half empty...
This reset moment will not last for long, let alone forever. History and the zeitgeist keep moving. It's a good bet that the 2020s will be fully roaring, the dawn of yet another thrilling, manic era of hypercapitalist easy money and overnight fortunes and conspicuous consumption...
...unions and more) to fundamental change is implacable, for sure, but it isn't invincible. We can rediscover common sense and the better angels of our nature. We possess the ability to rejigger and renovate our lives and our country as necessary. But to get there we have to keep thinking the unthinkable...