Phew! With all the bad karma swirli...

Phew! With all the bad karma swirling around the financial markets, the Middle East, The Hague and Asia, it came as a real surprise last month to find in like manner many of us moved by means of the miraculous rescue of nine trapped coal miners in Quecreek Pa.

Ironically, the palpable tension during the bleakest days of the ordeal could not have had a better emblem than the photo of the brawny hard-hatted rescue worker that ran in U newspapers in succession July 27. At first glance, the sight conveys the anxiety as workers scrambled to replace a stumbling drill bit. Upon closer inspection, however, the