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21 October 2010 / Jennifer James
Issue: 7438 / Categories: Blogs
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The Great Escape

Jennifer James offers the PM some advice on how to survive a bout of unpopularity

The recent rescue of 33 men from the San Jose mine in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile was watched by 1 billion people. Few would have been unmoved by the sight of Fenix 2 bringing each survivor to the surface, after a claustrophobic 20-minute ride in a steel coffin, standing on an escape hatch above a sheer 2,000-foot drop. You would have to be made of stone not to find the story incredibly poignant and uplifting, a real triumph of the human spirit over terrible odds.

And yet the Insider had to admit, along with an awful lot of internet chatterers, that the men all came out looking remarkably chipper. Sleek if not exactly plump after 69 days of starvation diet rations to ensure each would fit into the rescue capsule, yet looking, in the words of Salon Selectives, like they just stepped out of the salon.

Even the BBC correspondent at Camp Hope seemed a tad nonplussed by

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