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MEMORIAL The sunken memorial, called Reflecting Absence, will echo the footprints of the twin towers and will contain a museum dedicated to the events of 9/11. It is scheduled for completion in 2011 Subway transit center Underground Concourse...
...adversity is something Australians regard as a national trait. And snippets of information that reached the public from the rescue mission at Beaconsfield gold mine, in northeast Tasmania, probably pumped more life into that notion. Miners Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, were trapped almost a kilometer underground when a small earthquake caused a rock fall in the mine on April 25. They spent five days entombed in darkness, with only a muesli bar to share between them, before rescuers using imaging equipment made the startling discovery that the pair were still alive. Webb and Russell were still trapped...
...Though all these factors would have helped the pair stay calm while trapped, they may have little bearing on whether the men experience psychological ill effects in the future. "It wasn't in their interests to lose it [while they were underground]," says University of Queensland psychiatrist Brett McDermott, "but a lot of people, once they're in a safe place, experience a more intense emotional response." The danger for Webb and Russell is post-traumatic stress disorder, whose many and varied symptoms can take up to a decade to emerge. Relative levels of stoicism aren't pointers...
...couldn't have come at a worse time for China's Catholics. Since the Communist takeover in 1949, all Catholics have had to join the state-sanctioned CPCA or face persecution. Out of the estimated 12 million Catholics in the country, a majority are thought to worship at secret underground churches that are loyal to the Vatican. Since his elevation to the papacy, Benedict has sought to repair ties so that those faithful can practice in the open. The goal was full diplomatic relations and possibly even a papal visit to China by 2008, when Beijing will be host...
...that church officials may have overestimated China's flexibility. "There was never any intention by Beijing to change or loosen its grip on religion," he says. "Either they got an agreement on their terms, or they maintain the status quo under which they have pretty good control of the underground Catholic Church...