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Time 's exclusive: the tale of American astronaut Michael Foale's harrowing Mir expedition.
A long piece chronicles the harrowing experience of a family who unknowingly adopted a schizophrenic son.
His depiction of harrowing sit-ins "captures the courage and nobility of those small-scale protests that would transform America" (Tamar Jacoby, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the 783-page book could have stood a heavy edit.
That's the downside of Return to Paradise , which hinges on whether a noncommittal ne'er-do-well swain (played by Vince Vaughn) "has it in him" to submit to an imprisonment that will be at best harrowing and at worst fatal.
Hedges' dispatch includes the harrowing tale of an Albanian woman who fled Prekaz with her five children after her husband was killed.