I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.

The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

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