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...rstedt began to strategize, tapping into some of the survival skills he had learned in the military. "I started to react very differently from normal. I started to say, 'O.K., there is option one, option two. Decide. Act.' I didn't say, 'Oh, the boat is sinking.' I didn't even think about the wider perspective." Like many survivors, Härstedt experienced the illusion of centrality, a coping mechanism in which the brain fixates on the individual experience. "I just saw my very small world...
...injuries I've had. Many days, even though I'm a cardiologist, I feel more like an orthopedist in my practice because we always ask about how people are exercising, and they have a lot of complaints. We're sitting slumped over a computer all day and not doing normal exercise. In previous generations when we were digging ditches or pitching hay, there was a type of what we would now call functional exercise where we're exercising the whole body. And that's what prevented low back and knee and hip and all the things we're seeing today...
Santina gently rocks her one-year-old daughter, Alaper. Despite the extended stay at the hospital, Santina says she is grateful. "I appreciate one thing for sure," she says. "My child looks better than when she arrived." Two months ago, Alaper weighed just over half the normal weight for her age. Today she is lively and alert, and watches her mother closely...
...Brunt, who's on 120 hectares near the New South Wales town of Finley and has been rice farming for 32 years. "The tractor's throwing up clouds of dust." Les Gordon recalls the disenchantment among farmers in 1982 when state authorities limited farmers to 60% of their normal water allowance. Now, "I would kill for a 60% allocation," says Gordon, who still farms with his father, Henry. "Dad planted his first rice crop in 1949. No one around here has seen conditions like this before...
...normal year, Australia exports 85% of its rice production as branded product to some 70 markets through Asia, the Middle East, the South Pacific and other destinations. So it is that although Australian rice represents only 0.2% of world rice production, it accounts for more than 4% of the global rice trade - enough to feed 40 million people one meal a day for a year...