opportunity offered? A true miracle on the seventeenth day opens Pandora's Box and the global media arrive in their sumptious vehicles, palaces compared to the homes of the miners. There are options for recovery now, at least three ways of cutting through the rock and getting to the men. Predictably it is the most expensive machine that does the honours. The first rescue is as tense as a Raymond Chandler novel. The miners are heroes for having stayed alive for long enough to be rescued. The politicians are heroes for having rescued them. The media are heroes for having brought the pictures to our TVs. It can't have been easy for any of them. Perhaps this should have been on the radio Angus - book at bedtime? - as a sober reminder of how crookedly constructed our society is and how wretchedly it treats its poorest. Great article. its just a shame that instead of flying visits abroad and gift of things they do not need, a trust wasn't set up so they could receive a modest annual stipend and negate the need to mine again. PTSD is debilitating and whilst some may be able in time to establish new lives, for most the need to numb their emotions through substence abuse and eratic behaviour is their present and future .... with their familes suffering the brunt of this. Running water and a couple more rooms is great but intensive therapy which the chilian gov't did try to provide,coupled with