![]() ![]() ![]() How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personalityanything we've ever learned, thought, or dreamed ofultimately matter? Amanda Ripley, an award-winning journalist forTimemagazine who has covered some of the most devastating disasters of our age, set out to discover what lies beyond fear and speculation. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization. ![]()
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