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...issue now is to what extent the experience has psychologically scarred Webb and Russell. Several things are in their favor. As miners-without tendencies toward claustrophobia and with a fair idea of what the rescue effort unfolding above them would have involved-there's no doubt they coped better than would a desk-bound worker in a similar crisis. Also crucial was their having each other for company. In those grim days between the accident and contact with rescuers, "these men, I suspect, would have confided in each other things they'd never previously told anyone . . . that's what...
Humor in the face of 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...
...Though the rescue effort was taking longer than anyone had expected, as workers resorted to low-powered explosives to break rock that had proved impervious to hand-held tools, it seemed by the morning of May 8 that Webb and Russell's freedom was imminent, perhaps a matter of hours away. In trying to predict how the miners' ordeal may affect them, medically, in the months and years ahead, it might pay to take little notice of the levity they showed in the midst of it. Sandy McFarlane, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, suggests that...
...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 to the onset of this illness, which has its roots in the survival instinct common to all of us. "I've had several patients...
...Webb has drawn a diverse crowd of supporters. Conservative columnist George F. Will has written an approving article about him, three retired generals have endorsed him, and he has raised thousands of dollars from Hollywood for his campaign. He also seems to have the backing of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a moderate Democrat who will probably run for President in 2008. Warner, who initially encouraged businessman Harris Miller to run, has said he will stay neutral before the primary. But he may be changing his bet: he makes his first public appearance with Webb this week, at a fund...