TheView Viewpoint A way forward on the North Korea crisis By PhiIip Bobbitt THE し S. CANNOT COEXIST WITH A NUCLEAR-CAPABLE North Korea. lt would not only endanger Americans at home but also deter the U. S. from protecting allies that were threatened or attacked by North Korea. That could mean the end Ofthe American alliances with Pacific countries, a key pillar ofglobal security. But options for getting Pyongyang tO give up its nuclear ar- senal are not good. North Korea already holds U. S. allies hos- tage tO attacks we cannot control—and may already or will soon pose a similar threat tO the U. S. homeland. That presents an unacceptable risk ofretaliation for anyAmerican military action. There is nothing the U. S. can d0 for North Korea that might induce it tO denuclearize, because its leader, KimJong Un, uses his country's war footing against the U. S. t0 justify and maintain his totalitarian regime. lnternational options are hardly more promising. There is nothing the world community, including China, can d0 t0 North Korea by enforcing sanctions, or for North Koreaby relieving it ofthem, that would make it renounce itS nuclear weapons. The leadership iS convinced, with some reason, that only the threats it poses tO Others keep it in power. One does not commit suicide for fear ofdeath. THERE IS, HOWEVER, one option that has some promise: induce a nuclear guarantee for the North Korean regime from China. IfChina can be convinced t0 give a credible guarantee that it will defend North Korea against a U. S. invasion or pre- emptive strike, and North Korea can be induced tO accept it, then there could be a way out Ofthe current impasse. There are important advantages tO China in such an arrangement. lts leaders wouldjoin the establishment ofgreat states that take responsibility for world order, bolstering their domestic legitimacy. And the deal would provide a way out 0fa mounting crisis that could fuel regional chaos. North Korea too might find reasons tO accept China's protection, especially from the U. S. First-strike technology is developing quickly: over the past decade, strides have been made in the surveillance, tracking and analysis , targeting and detonation procedures needed for a successful preemptive strike. Getting under China's umbrella now could provide Kim a greater chance oflong-term regime survival than a nuclear arsenal vulnerable t0 developing U. S. first-strike and antimissile technologie S. Moreover, Kim could gain legitimacy at home and abroad via an agreement modeled on the Helsinki Accords that would recognize North Korea's borders and finally end the Korean War. Our aim must be to reorient Kim's paranoia, making him fear losing an opportunity for security in the eyes 0fhis own people more than he is afraid 0f dependence on China. Our allies might be better offt00. With an arsenal oflong- range nuclear missiles, North Korea can raise doubts about whether the U. S. would risk an attack on the American home- land ⅲ order t0 protect South Korea andJapan. Unfortunately, this concern has been heightened by some ofthe rhetoric dur- ing the 2016 U. S. presidential campaign ・ NO one will take this radical proposal seriously unless we stop kidding ourselves about the incentives we can realistically employ t0 compel the North Korean regime. N0thing short 0fan ironclad guarantee ofpreservation for the regime will modify Kim's behavior. He will starve his people and run almost incalculable risks because he has no other credible choice. And no guarantee 仕 om the U. S. is credible to the North Korean leadership. TWO other points: As it is our alliances that are most threatened, we should shore them up through consultations with TOkyo, S eoul and Canb erra. What d0 they want tO see from us? HOW can we avoid confrontations with their leaders without hamstringing the protection Of our legitimate security interests? Second, our threats only validate Kim's rhetoric by making it 叩 pear that there is a p10t by the Americans t0 destroy his regime, a fundamental premise Of his dome stic propaganda and his thinking. THE COURSE 0 ACTION I propose iS neither easy nor risk-free. Relations between North Korea and China are strained. Linking their security interests might increase the chances Ofa Chinese- U. S. confrontation, and it would tie Chine se nuclear strategy tO a surrogate state that is inclined tO get intO conflicts. But countering nuclear proliferation through extended deterrence is a proven strategy. lt was the deployment 0fAmer- ican nuclear forces in Europe and. ASia that achieved the gre at victories Of non- proliferation in Germany and Jap an, two states that faced a mortal threat and had the wealth and technology to acquire their own nuclear weapons. That they did not was partly the re sult 0f extended deterrence , a concept Often neglected but that lies at the heart ofthe current crisis. ln the case ofNorth Korea, ex- tended deterrence iS a more promising option than anybeing offered now. And time iS not on our Side. Bobbitt is 0 professor 可 w れ d the director 可市 e Centerfor N 砒 i0 れ Security CO mb University. A more detailed version Ofthis article is av ⅲ厄 b 厄 at time. C0m/b0bんt加0r市た0re0. ALLIANCE 粮 DANGER The pro posal lnduce China tO bring North Korea under the protection Of itS nuclear umbrella.ln exchange fO 「 giving up its own weapons, Pyongyang gets an end tO the Korean War, eased sanctions and international recognition. 一ト 0 」 339 3 をエ VO A8 SNO 一ト V エト S コ 1 コ一 21

Time 0 竈 Reviews Boreanaz, , 0 れ d 〃 ow members 可ん s SEAL team 0 TELEVISION be soldiers. ” Thes e characters generally don't have the time or inclination tO care about pieties, unless those pieties can be spun ⅲ self-aggrandizing ways ・ We are living ⅲ the longest periOd Ofwar in American history and, watching the new TV season, one might think the grinding nature ofthe conflict has made meaningful storytelling about it impossible. War provides an innately compelling hook for these shows, but there's something unpleas ant and hectoring about how bluntly incurious they are about what it might all mean. They seem satisfied tO prove a case with which so many will easily agree: that the military comprises hardworking people, that global terrorism is bad. But true patriotism means wanting one 'S own homeland tO be the best it can, not just repeating three times a week in prime time that it already is. THE BRAVE premieres Sept. 25 at 10P. m. E.T. on NBC; SEAL TEAM premieres Sept. 27 at 9 p. m. E.T. on CBS; VALOR premieres Oct. 9 at 9 p. m. E.T. ontheCW Network TV's calorie-free take on American patriotism By DanieI D'Addario THIS FALL, THREE NEW NETWORK SHOWS LOOK AT DIFFERENT aspects 0fthe U. S. military: NBC's The Brave is about undercover specialists; CBS's SEAL Team is about a SEAL team; and the CW's Valor, true to the soapy network's form, is about torrid drama on anArmy base. AII three share dialogue rich in technical jargon—on b0th SEAL Team and VI 0 ら characters refer pointedly to "helo s; ” instead of helicopters. AII three share the same antagonist: the global spread 0fISIS. And, unfortunately, all three share a shallow take on American righteousness. Take the first episodes of The Brave and SEAL Team, both of which get their charge 仕 om overseas kidnappings of blond American women. "We are fighting people that want tO wipe us 0 圧 the planet; ” Anne Heche, as deputy director of the Defense lntelligence Agency on The Brave, intones. "That means we have tO be as ruthless as they are. ” Later, another character provides his own take: "l'm not saying l'm gonna enjoy killing these guys, but you kidnap a woman, you get what you deserve. ” SEAL Team takes much the same tack toward its villains. These shows seem to be trying to provoke a vengeful growl from the audience. 日 ome れ d , in its lesser moments, had similarly nasty paranoid outlines. But that show has been more adept at moral ambiguity. On SEAL Team, meanwhile, lead David BoreanazjokingIy pretends to find it racist when another character compares Liberia tO the postapocalyptic film Mad Max. 0 Ⅱ阨 lo ら the show most concerned with the human side Ofwar, pilOt Nora (Christina Ochoa) keeps a doll in the cockpit: "lt was a gift 仕 om a little Afghan girl. She said that until me, she didn't knowwomen could STARS WITH STRIPES Mike VogeI stars on NBC's The Brave; Ochoa plays the lead on the CW'S Valor 47

Conversation THE WRONG GOALS RE "KID SPORTS INC. ” [Sept. 9 ] : l'm sure that in the U. S. , putting your children in sports is Often about prestige and money, trying t0 ん旧Ⅱ the American Dream and having a more successful child than your neighbor's. Your article included no deeper insight int0 how the children themselves feel about all the sports-related travel, and hence a lack of time for a normal social life. I wish parents would act according tO their children's interest instead Ofin hopes Of getting them a s cholarship. A wunderkind is rare, but you cannot force a miracle. MichaeI CoIberg, HAMBURG YOURARTICLE SAYS THAT "intense early specialization in a single sport increases the risk of inj ury, burnout and depression. " That does not sound like a recipe for a healthy childhood. What happened t0 children playing sports just for fun, for getting exercise and for learning tO Win and lose as a team? Or are we merely experiencing a "professionalism ” Ofthat well-known psychologic al phenomenon ofparents trying tO relive their largely imaginary sporting opportunitie s through their children? Eric A. Ferrel, GENEVA TALK TO US SEND AN EMAIL: letters@timemagazine.00m Please dO not send attachments FOLLOW US: facebook.com/time @せ me (Twitter and lnstagram) OUT OF BOUNDS RE “ 8 QUESTIONS ” [Sept. 9 ] : You seemed t0 have run out ofrelevant and interesting questions for ten- niS Star Garbifie Muguruza, when you asked her if she could picture herselfplay- ing a tournament while preg- nant as Serena Williams did. An impressive young tennis champion with the world at her feet and yet you de- fault tO a boring and sexist question about an entirely theoretical aspect 0fher ん - ture personal life. Yawn. Yet another female athlete being reduced t0 this sort 0f dull, gender-biased, ovary- focused ' journalism. ” S. Boeuf, TOULOUSE, FRANCE AN APT PUNISHMENT RE "HONG KONG JAILS ITS First Prisoners ofCon- science ” [Sept. 9 ] : Your cov- erage on Hong Kong's politics has never been exempt from a biased view that is character- istic Ofthe general Western media. C alling the offenders prisoners ofconsclence completely disregards the fact that imprisonment was an apt punishment for their crime Ofan unlawful assem- bly that led to injuries for sev- eral s ecurity guards. TIME is critical 0fPresident Trump's failing tO condemn those re- sponsible for violence in the Charlotte sville tragedy, and I hope it could apply the same standard Of intolerance Of violence When it comes tO Hong Kong. HONG KONG Henry Tsui, other people. This coloniza- ries already long inhabited by colonized (robbed) territo- low travellers then violently tremists, Puritans, whose fel- motley bunch of religious ex- U. S. was partly founded by a ⅲ the way she intended. The she is right, but perhaps not the dreams Ofour founders; ” "this serial reckoning with Nancy Gibbs writes about the grain in America. When ceptional, that it goes against intolerance and racism iS ex- sumption, overall, that this Your coverage implies the as- extremist hatred in the U. S. for spotlighting the reality of FaiIed? ” [Aug. 28 ] : Thankyou ceed Where the President RE "WILL THE NATION SUC- HATE 粮 AMERICA tion, this destruction Of civili- zations, was a racist genocide. There are no inherited Sins, for people or nations, but let's be honest about how the U. S. was born. Adam W ha ESPOLLA, SPAIN HAVING READ THIS PRO- foundly disturbing issue, l'm le 代 feeling as ifthe true colors ofPresident Trump, and the country he leads, are being exposed. The history les S ons in the vanous article S were incredibly helpful from a European perspective (with xenophobia 0 Ⅱ the rise here), but there was a significant omission in your selection ofperspectives: the voice Of Native Americans. What is their view on the ultimate irony that every white person in America IS an uninvited immigrant? Richard Thomas, PORTHCAWL, WALES 1 、一 4 、、物ー朝 0 第を Send 0 letter: Letters tO the Editor must include writer'sfull name, address and home telephong may be editedfor purposes 可 cl i 収 or space, 0 should be addressed t0 the nearest ofice: HONG KONG - TIME Magazine ers , 37 / F , Ox House, TaikOO PIace, 979 Kings Road' Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; JAPAN - TIME Magazine 地 e 博 , 2- 1-27F Atago, TOkyo 10 6227 , ね n ; EUROPE - TIME Magazine ers , PO BOX 63444 , London, SEIP 5 日 , UK, AUSTRALIA TIME Magazine ers , GPO BOX 3873 , Sydney, NSW 2001 , Australia; NEW ZEALAND - TIME Magazine ers , PO BOX 198 , ShortIand St. , Auckland, 1140 , New Zealand Please recycle this magazine a れ社 remove inserts and samples before recycling

>For more on these stories, visit time.com/ideas HISTORY Th e origins 0 f pumpkin-spice mama IN RECENT YEARS, FALL HAS become virtually synonymous with pumpkin spice, as U. S. grocery stories and cafés tout the flavor in everything from beer and lattes tO Oreo cookies. But the trend iS even more novel—if not downright impre ssive —when you consider hOW Americans once Viewed the squash. Among colonial settlers, pumpkin "was a food oflast resort; ” says Cindy Ott, author 0fPum たⅲ : The Curious History 0 工れ Ame ⅱ ca れ ICO れ . Because the crop was a new-world native, seen as primitive. ln fact, pumpkin eater ” was a derogatory term for a poor, ignorant farmer. (Hence the nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater; ” about a man who can't read or spell. ) Things began to change when Americans flocked tO cities in the mid—19th century. Nostalgia for farm life meant nostalgia for pumpkins. They were rebranded as a treat, especially after the China's 'mountain' 1844 publication 0fLydia Maria skyscrapers Child's poem "Over the River and Through the Wood; ” which ends One way tO make the world's most populous capital seem more with a cheer for pumpkin pie. in tune with nature? BuiIdings inspired byforests,lakes and But ifnostalgia saved the stones. That's the idea behind Chaoyang Park Plaza, opening soon in Beijing; the local population is expected tO exceed pumpkin's reputation, the 130 million over the next century, thanks tO a government crop returned the favor. ln the plan tO combine the surrounding areas intO a "super city. " TO 20th century, small producers relieve some Of that urban density, the architecture firm behind threatened by industrial farms Chaoyang, MAD, drew inspiration from traditional shan-shui found that roadside pumpkin (mountain-water) paintings tO create a series Of LEED-certified residential complexes, Office blocks and public spaces. The stands , pick-your-own pumpkin skyscrapers seen above are meant tO evoke mountains, replete patches and pumpkin festivals with shining peaks and ridges from erosion. MAD founder Ma could draw custO mers tO the Yansong isjustgetting started: he recently proposed a similar country—which only made shan-shui plan forthe city Of Guiyang, in China's southwestern the pumpkin even more Ofa Guizhou province. —JuIia Zorthian sign Ofthe season. Last year, sales ofpumpkin-flavored products generated more than $ 400 million, an all-time high. —OLIVIA B. WAXMAN For more these stories, ViSit time.com/history DATA THIS JUST IN A roundup Of new and noteworthy insights from the week's most talked-about studies: 0 FEELING BAD ABOUT FAILURE MAKES YOU IMPROVE A study in the 丿 ourn Of Be わ a ⅵ 0 「訓 Decision Making found that concentrating on emotions related tO failure in a certain task made people more likely tO try harder in the future than those whO thought 0 可 y about the details oftheir mistakes in the task. 0 TATTOOS MAY RELEASE TOXIC PARTICLES 粮 TO YOUR BODY Research in Scientific Reports found that in autopsies Offour corpses with tattoos, nanoparticles Of titanium dioxide—a possibly carcinogenic ingredient found in ta 杙 00 pigments—had appeared in the lymph nodes. But more research iS needed tO assess possible dangers. SNAPSHOT 0 ITMIGHTBE NICER NOT TO SAY 'SORRY' A study Of more than 1 , 000 people in Frontiers in PsychoIogy found that people reported feeling more hurt about a rejection when it contained an apology and that the word SO 「Ⅳ made people feel obliged tO Offer forgiveness When they didn'twantto. ーエ Z. DIGITS Percentage Of the world's population that lacks lnternet access, 62 % of whom live in Asia and the Pacific lslands, according tO a new U. N.report ー 52 % 蘂

DATA べ 1 ッ 1 CITY FITNESS 」 ust over 53 % Of Americans reported exercising three or more times perweek, up a bit from previous years, pera new reportfrom Gallup and Sharecare, a health and wellness company. Here, some city-specific figures: を 0 Boulder, Co . 69.6 % say they exerclse more than 3x perweek BLAZE OF GLORY Cassini P「0 」 ect manager Earl Maize,Ieft, and spacecraft operations team manager 」 ulie Webster embrace at NASA's 」 et PropuIsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. , on Sept. 15 after confirming the demise Of the Cassini spacecraft. The probe ended its 20-year mission by plunging tO its destruction in Saturn's atmosphere, partly tO prevent the possibility Of its contaminating the planet's moons. Photograph byJae C. Hong—AFP/Getty lmages 0 Abbas cut ん el payments that led t0 blackouts across the coastal territory. SMALL CHANGES Under pressure, Hamas agreed tO cede control Of certain administrative functions in Gaza and move forward with elections. lt's just the latest evolution toward moderation from the militant group under new leader lsmail Haniyeh. Hamas even released a policy document in May that accepted the idea Of a Palestinian state based REALITY CHECK Few experts believe reconciliation is a realistic prospect; no date has been set for elections, and previous efforts have failed. The palestinian Authority is also 、綫 unlikely to drop its objections to Hamas' military and security forces, or its control Of Gaza. But this move might at least convince Abbas tO li 仕 sanctions and improve the lives 0f the 1.8 million Pale stinians living in the desolate Gaza Strip. —JARED MALSIN POLITICS Anchorage 6 気 3 % Hamas takes a step away from isolation THE ISLAMIST GROUP HAMAS AGREED ON Sept. 16 t0 elections ⅲ Gaza and the West Bank, ra1Sing the prospect ofPalestinian reconciliation after 10 years 0f squabbling and violence. CO し 0 WAR The two Palestinian factions, Hamas and its secular rival Fatah, have been at Odds since a 2007 civil war that le 代 the Gaza Strip under Hamas Hamas control and the elected Fatah-led Palestinian ma Haniyeh Authority overseeing as leader the West Bank. ln ⅲ May March, President Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas Of attempting tO form a "shadow government" in Gaza by taking over key administrative role S. 0 Austin 54.5 % St. Louis 50.5 % Akron, OhiO 45 % 9

TimeOff 'THE WAVES IT'S CAUSED THROUGHASIA HAVE BEENINCREDIBLE. ' —NEXT PAGE 0 0 1 阨 oh 0 d Martin-Green kick 0 ガ市 e れ ew Star Trek with an action-packed episode 0 れ Sept. 24 Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking WHEN CBS ANNOUNCED TWO YEARS Dea の and MicheIIe Yeoh (Crouching ago that it would bring Star Trek back ln a quantum Tiger, Hidden Dragon) would headline tO televi sion, this time starring tWO leap, Star the new Star Trek: Discovery, the women ofcolor, you could have been tWO women were greeted with forgiven for thinking the trolls might Trek becomes the kind of abuse that has become stay under their bridges for once. Even commonplace in SOCial media. Earlier ifthey turned out in droves tO protest a female this year, Martin-Green decided tO the casting 0f Daisy Ridley as the lead address the blowback at San Diego ofthe new Star Wars and harassed the enterprise stars of the all-female Ghostbusters Comic-Con—a 130 , 000- person pop- culture convention that can trace its remake, surely Trekkers—fans prefer origins t0 Star Trek fan gatherings that term to Trekkies—would be in the early 1970S. Martin-Green, different. After all, when it first aired Trek's first African-American female in the 1960S , Star Trek boasted one 0f lead, says she wasn't surprised by the the most diverse casts on TV, and in fracas: "l'm a black woman raised in 1968 it broadcast the first interracial the South, so that's something that kiSS. AcrOSS itS many iterations, I have always had an unfortunate the 51-year-old series consistently understanding 0f. But on the flip side, promoted postracial alien harmony it was surprising, because tO say that and a top-line promise t0 "boldly go. ” you love Star Trek but you're upset lfonly. When CBS revealed that TELEVISION By EIiana Dockterman S 8 0 ー S コエト N V 「 45

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8-year-old daughter can retreat in case perceived closeness tO Washington. of emergency. lnside the 1.2 million yen North Korea has admitted kidnapping ( $ 11 , 000 ) sanctuary iS a wide-screen 13 Japanese citizens in the past, though TV, an air-conditioning unit, a portable some believe the true number could be toilet and supplies ofvacuum-packed in the hundreds. ln 2015 , North Korea chicken stew and tinne d muffns. The turned back its time zone by a half- hour on the 70th anniversary Of Korea's manufacturer says it can withstand 15 tons 0f crushing force. "Since I got liberation from Japanese occupation in a symbolic act Of divorce from its this I can breathe again and my heart former colonial overlords. "The wicked doesn't race,: ” says Omori. "I posted Japane s e imperialists committed such a phOtO on lnstagram, and everyone started asking where I got it and how unpardonable crimes as deprivmg Korea ofeven its standard time while much it cost. mercile s sly trampling down its land," Omori says the shelter was installed before Sept. 9 , the 69th anniversary of state media spat tO mark the event. the founding 0fNorth Korea. Lastyear, Kim celebrated the anniversary with an 、 HOSTILITIES TO break out underground nucle ar test, and given the between the U. S. and North Korea, many J 叩 anese fear they would be the escalating hostilities, many expected a first victims. TO wage full-scale war with miSSile or Other provocation tO mark the South Korea—which Pyongyang claims occasion this year. "We slept downstairs as its own territory, filled with forsaken so ifwe heard the missile alert, we could kin wallowing under "American be in the shelter injust one minute; ” she oppression '—would be a conflicted says. ()n the end, there was no Sept. 9 issue. And the U. S. is too distant and missile, but the one six days later. ) powerful t0 be the principal target. NucIear calamity is as much a part of But North Korea would shed few tears contemporaryJapanese DNA as sushi forJapan, which is host t0 50 , 000 U. S. or manga comiCS. The Hiroshima peace troops and the U. S. S. 0 記 d eaga Memorial Museum is the mostvisited the only American nuclear aircraft site forJapanese schoolchildren. Even carrier with a foreign home port. pop icon G0dzilla was spawned as an al- NOt everyone agrees with the aggression. F0110wing World War Ⅱ , legory for nuclearweapons, following heightened state ofreadiness. ln the defeated Axis power adopted the twin World War Ⅱ bombings and 1954 ' s Lucky Dragon 5 incident, named Nagasaki—where as many as 80 , 000 a pacifist constitution, secure, as it people died when the Allied atomic after aJ 叩 anese tuna fishing boat whose supposedly still is, within the U. S. bomb was dropped on Aug ・ 9 , 1945 ー 23 crew members developed radiation nuclear umbrella. lts military is called 13 CiVil SOCiety organizations, including poisoning after straying close t0 the U.S. the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and survivor groups, have called for the Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini AtOll. though it is well equipped and trained, emergency drills t0 be canceled because prophetically, in last year's G0dzilla it has restrictions on deployment. But "they are impractical and unnecessarily Resurgence, the latest Ofthe character's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants tO provoke a sense ofdanger. ” Still, N0buk0 modify the constitution. He has alre ady some 35 movies, the U. S. government iS Oribe, whose Oribe Seiki Seisakusho portrayed as belligerently vying t0 nuke changed rules t0 allow troops t0 fight firm sells nuclear shelters inJapan's TOkyo tO stop the marauding monster. abroad and pushed through a draconian southern city ofKobe, says it is better For many inJ 叩 an today, the Trump Ad- antiterrorism law,. Although these t0 be prepared. Beneath her house is a ministration's volcanic rhetoric against policies face substantial opposition, nuclear bunker with 8-in. -thick concrete North Korea is similarly reckless. "Kim Kim's belligerence is a boon for hawks. doors , a hand- cranked air-filtration is routinely vilified in the media here, A minority is even calling for Japan t0 system, six orange bunk beds and weeks but Trump doesn't get offa lot better,: ” develop itS own nuclear weapons. ofsupplies. She says many people share says professorJeffrey Kingston, director Some Japanese are taking things her 叩 ocalyptic fears: her stock 0f60 0fAsian studies at Temple University in into their own hands. Hiroko Omori, Swiss-made air purifiers have been sold 42 , serves iced tea on a lace tablecloth. Japan. erratic provocations are seen out since April, she claims, and she 's had tO be making a bad situation far worse. An outsize framed picture Of a cartoon almo st 40 times the orders for shelters Japanese nerves alSO Stem from mermaid interrupts her suburban already this year compared with last— historical baggage ・ Japan annexed the T0kyo living room's quaint floral enough t0 safely house 800 people. Korean Peninsula in 1910 and ruled it wallpaper. ln the opposite corner is the "We've had worries about North Korea until the end ofWorld War Ⅱ . 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に上坙ミ Previously, he led the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital ⅲ Kansas City, MO. , where he pi- oneered a rapid genetic-sequencing pro- gram with the goal ofproviding real-time DNA information to doctors that would change treatments for the sickest babies. Kingsmore still remembers the first child whose genome he mapped, which convinced him that genetic sequencing was needed in every children's hospital. That 7-year-01d girl had a genetic abnor- mality that could have been easily treated with a supplement found ⅲ pharmacies and supermarkets—for about 50 a dose. treating newborns but Other physicians and it saves brains, When you are touched But the genetic testing was done tOO late, treating adults for nearly any disease tO by that as a physician one time, you are and the girl had already suffered from start thinking Of their patients' DNA as forever interested. ' brain damage due tO her condition, as had the next indispensable tOOl in medicine. her younger sister. Had the genetic test lt could pave the way for using genetics to been run When theywere newborns, their KINGSMORE'S GENETIC operation IS diagnose and treat disease, and validate concentrated in a 2 , 700- sq. - 仕 . space on brains might have been saved. "Those the power ofpersonalized medicine. "His the second floor 0f one 0f Rady's medi- first cases made us realize, HOly COW, for project is going t0 be a watershed; ” says cal offce buildings. An affable 57-year- the sake of5@, these children could have Dr. Tracy Trotter, chair of the council on old lrishman prone to sports analogies, had a completely different outcome; ” says genetics at the American Academy 0fPe- he has a gentle lilt and warm demeanor Kingsmore. "That's when I, and all ofus, diatrics. "When you see that it saves lives that make him an 叩 t advocate forbabies. got really serious about this. ” 0 0 WHY SHE HAD GENETIC TESTING lfthere was a genetic cause, the test results could help doctors better treat Grace. Knowing if her condition was inherited would 引 SO help the Holbrooks decide whether to have more children. LIZANDTRISTAN HOLBROOK, BOTH 27 ; GRACE,3 MONTHS GRACE'S SYMPTOMS Grace was born with an unusual combination Of a congenital hernia and heart abnormality that required her tO use a ventilator and feedingtube as soon as She was born. Doctors did not expect her tO survive beyond a few weeks. HOW GENETIC TESTING HELPED Grace's condition wasn't due tO anything in her DNA, SO doctors believe that two surgeries alone will correct her ma 」 or health problems. 41

Time Off Reviews BOOKS Grace and gumption in Irish-CathoIic Brooklyn By Sarah BegIey NOT MUCH HAPPENS TO THE LITTLE NURSING Sisters ofthe Sick Poor, the stars ofAIice McDermott's new novel The Ⅳⅲ市 Hour—they live t0 serve 0thers. But plenty has happened t0 those in their care. These nuns in early—20th century Br00klyn help people ⅲ rock-bottom situations : a woman who's lost her leg to a rabid dog, children with life-threatening illnesses, a wife whose husband commits suicide while she 's pregnant. This last case iS Annie, an lrish immigrant WhO came tO America for the man who would eventuallywidow her. When their daughter SaIIy is born, the sisters give Annie a j 0b in the convent's laundry, and the twosome become lifelong associates Ofthe nuns. The job is a life raft—little Sally has supervision down ⅲ that laundry roo m from infancy through adolescence, first swaddled on a rug on the floor, and later accommodated with a desk tO dO her homework. But it's a brutal way 0flife for Annie and the nun whO oversees her, Sister llluminata, filled with harsh detergents and scalding irons ・ ln this world Of severe physical realities, the simplest comforts are sublimely felt. One nun finds happiness in the green smell that comes 0 仟 a basket woven from unblessed palms when her own body heat warms it up; another tells a group of children that arriving in heaven will be like taking 0 an itchy, too-tight wool coat: "When you finally get the old thing 0 鴟 the air ⅲ this house will feel as COOI and as sweet as silk on your skin, won't it? lt will feel like cool water on the back ofyour neck and on your wrists ... That's how you'll feel when you get tO heaven. lt's very much in doubt whether all ofthese characters will get to he aven— including the de ad father, whose suicide bars him from burial in hallowed ground. Sin and virtue drive the novel, and though several characters commit serious transgressions—at least in the eyes Of the church— they are more Often motivated by love than hate. McDermott, who frequently writes about lrish-American communities, has as much affection for her characters as they have for one another. Although the plot can be bleak, it offers j ust enough warmth tO nurture hope. The nuns are 血Ⅱ of solutions—practical ones, and sometimes superstitious ones—to keep people moving through crises, "one fOOt in front Of the Other ” as the elderly Sister St. Savior puts it. Watching a pregnant Annie clutch at her hair immediately after her husband's death, Sister St. Savior gently moved Annie's hand from out of her hair—it McDermott won the 1998 National B00 た Awardfor Charming Billy 7 was a mad, dramatic gesture that would lead tO mad, dramatic speech—and placed her fingertips once agam on her middle, where her thoughts should be. ” McDermott's That Night, At Weddings 0 れ d Wakes and After This have made her a Pulitzer finalist three times over. She is a poet Of corporeal description; Sally's faint freckles, for instance, are "beneath the surface ofher skin, as ifunder a milky veil. ” But it's the way she marries the spirit t0 the physical world that makes her work transcendent. "Down here; ” says Sister llluminata, "we dO our best tO transform what is ugly, soiled, stained, don't we? We send it back intO the world like a resurrected SO ⅲ . We're like the priest in his confessional, aren't we? ” For each other, these women may actually serve a higher function than a priest in his confessional. They keenly understand suffering, and do what they can to alleviate each other's. The Ninth Hour is a story with the simple grace of a votive candle in a dark church. ,\Tc い ermc ) に Xinlh Ⅱいは WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW Like many Of the characters in the novel, McDermott was born in BrookIyn and educated in Catholic schools ULFANDERSEN—GETTY IMAGES ロ