Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Chilean miners: What happened in the first 17 days? from Most Recent Home Page Posts from THE WEEK by The Week

"Los 33" rationed off their food over the first 17 days until they were each surviving on a teaspoon of canned tuna every 72 hours. As the Chilean miners' "pact of silence" about their mysterious first 17 days trapped underground starts to unravel, a story is emerging about how "Los 33" lived before rescuers first made contact and offered the hope of escape. "There are some secrets that they should keep," says Jonathan Franklin, who is writing a book on the miners, and says he knows "things that I'm never going to publish." Still, he says, the full story of "what happened down there" will come out eventually. Here's a look at what we know already:

Check out the article. It's actually engrossing. The book's in the works, and it's practically a foregone conclusion at this point, that Tinseltown's scouting.

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