A long wait for the trapped Chilean miners

Hopefully, new dredging technology will bring them out--33 Chilean miners who are trapped 700 meters below the earth in a work station of a gold-and-silver mine--but it will not be soon.  At most sixty days!

They've been given food and fresh air through a narrow borehole. NASA scientists are now providing advisories so that the miners would be able to cope psychologically with a long isolation down there.

A camera has gone down to provide the outside world a glimpse of how they're faring (see some of them the front page of El Mercurio, below). 

http://www.diario.elmercurio.com/

And a telephone line is now in place. Franklin Lobos was first to connect to the outside world. He was hooked up to his daughter, and he chided her for not going to school.  The front page cover of the magazine Las Ultimas Noticias below shows him beaming from the underground (inset).

http://www.lun.com

The world can only pray that they will be able to come out alive, healthy and sound in body and mind.