By SERENA MARIA DANIELS / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERBUENA PARK, Calif.  – Mark Taylor still bears scars – on his body and in his mind – of April 20, 1999. Taylor was eating lunch in an outside area near the Columbine High School cafeteria when...

Suyatno spent four days at sea, clinging to his 6-year-old son and praying rescuers would reach them after an Indonesian ferry packed with hundreds of passengers capsized in a violent storm."Even though I was weak, I never let go of my boy," said Suyatno after...

He was brought out of the darkness of the Sago Mine in the middle of the night, comatose and battered _ and straight into the unyielding glare of unwanted fame.But today, nearing the anniversary of the Jan. 2 explosion and 41-hour entrapment that killed 12...

Fisherman Jose Enrique Tejada clung to a gas container in the moonlit Atlantic and prayed for help after giant waves capsized the boat he was on, throwing him and dozens of other men into the ocean.Some began swimming toward lights on shore 20 miles away,...

[It] almost seems that Thomas Keneally, on a slow day, picked up a copy of "The Survivor"—his earlier Antarctic novel—turned the plot over in his mind awhile, and decided to rework it with a few new twists. In "The Survivor" a middle-aged man reflected upon the disaster that overcame the leader of his South Pole expedition, and tried to deal with his own guilt, which grew out of his brief affair with the leader's wife. In "Victim of the Aurora,"...

Essay compares the reality television show "Survivor" to other reality shows on television.