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| Heroes: Why Do Some Risk Their Lives for Others? - ABC News Posted: 12 Jan 2011 11:10 PM PST Jan. 12, 2011 The mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., was remarkable for the shooter's brutality and for the courage of the bystanders who risked their lives to stop him. Seventy-four-year-old retired Army Col. Bill Badger's head was grazed by a bullet during the shooting, but somehow he still wrestled 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner to the ground as Loughner continued to fire. "Your first reaction is to put a stop to it and do what you have to do to put a stop to it," Badger said. Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET  Bill Badger describes what happened during the Tucson shooting. Daniel Hernandez, an intern who had worked for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for just a week, also ran toward the gunfire. He held Giffords in his arms and possibly saved her life. "I was kind of holding her up against my chest and applying pressure to her wound," Herandez said. "I would tell her, 'Gabby, are you still with us? Just grab my hand. Hold tight.'" Hernandez got a standing ovation in the Arizona legislature Tuesday. Tuscon's heroes echo cases in the past where ordinary people -- untrained and with very much to lose -- made an instant decision to risk their own lives to save others. Rohit Deshpande, a professor at Harvard Business School, has delved into the science of heroism to find out what causes someone to spring into action despite the danger to help or save someone else. In his research, Deshpande focused on how hotel workers took extreme risks to protect guests during the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008. After several desperate hours of explosions and gunfire, members of the kitchen staff locked arms and formed a cordon around guests as the attackers machine-gunned them down. In another display of heroism, hotel operators stayed at their phones to call rooms with vital information. "I was incredibly surprised to hear their stories," Deshpande said. He found heroism had nothing to do with age, gender or religion. It started with personality. "It seems that they have a much more highly developed moral compass," he said. "They have this instinct for doing something good for other people. We find this across a whole series of situations. We find people who risk their own lives to protect people from harm." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Comics Roundup: Pixelated Heroes; Conan; Kevin Keller; Hark! A Book! - NPR News Posted: 12 Jan 2011 09:34 AM PST  Sony Online Entertainment Screenshot from DC Universe Online Justice Comes With a Low Monthly Fee Yesterday saw the launch of DC Universe Online, a "massively multiplayer online action game" for the PC and PS3. Players create avatars allied with a DC hero or villain, choose costumes, select powers, and set forth onto the streets of Gotham, Metropolis and other DCU locations to either defend justice or commit evil (read: to wail on others). Said wailing earns experience points, which causes the character to level up, getting better/stronger/faster/more creepy in the process. (Evidently, players will occasionally be able to assume the identity of actual DC heroes and villains — like Blue Beetle, above — and villains in self-contained training simulation.) This is grand news to some. (Note: A Marvel MMORPG has been in the works for some time, though its development has hit some bumps.) Now me, I've never tried an MMORPG (or, in this case, a MMOAG) and don't plan on it. My reasons are three: 1. I don't need to pay 60 bucks for a game, and 15 bucks a month thereafter, to get called a gay slur by insolent nine-year-olds. I can get that just by stepping outside the apartment. For free. 2. I've seen several friends get sucked into World of Warcraft, only to emerge with nothing to show for it but a deathlike pallor, hollow eyes and a flying mount. I don't need to try meth to know that within a month I'd go full-on Winter's-Bone-day-player. Same principle. 3. The game's take on superhero costumes — at least the ones I've seen so far — skews toward a battle armor/semi-pro football vibe that, from a comics perspective, screams I-Love-the-90s. (Yeah, I just said that. See point 1, above.) Anyone else going to give it shot? Let's hear your take in the comments. The Flaming C is Hot Under the Collar. And, Evidently, the Oven Mitt. If you haven't been catching Conan O'Brien's taped segments with the folks at DC Animated (including big, muckety-muck animator Bruce Timm), you're missing some of what Conan does best. In the latest, the creators of the soon-to-debut Teen Titans cartoon sent him a clip in which they swapped out the character of Superman, replacing him with Conan's superhero alter-ego, the Flaming C. Gotta love the steam rising off that oven mitt. The Gay Face(book) of Riverdale Late last year, Archie Comics introduced a gay character name Kevin Keller, and the skeptical among us wondered if he'd fade into the background like so many others (where have you gone, Raj Patel?) or if he'd stick around and perhaps even attain solid 2nd-tier status, right up there with your Big Ethels or your Dilton Doileys. This morning, we may have gotten an answer, as the following image appeared on the Archie Comics Facebook page. Whether or not it's a one-shot comic isn't the thing to concentrate on, here. What's important is: Dude's got his own logo now. In the Archie universe, logo = longevity. Plus, She Draws a Great Aquaman. So. This morning, comics reporter Tom Spurgeon (at his site called ... The Comics Reporter) broke the news that publisher Drawn and Quarterly will be collecting Kate Beaton's great, deservedly beloved webcomic Hark! A Vagrant! in a book this fall. If you're wondering why this is good news, you have either never read Beaton's sublimely funny takes on literature, history, mermaids and family, or you are stupid, cold and unloved. That's just science. Go here, poke around. You're welcome. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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