From what I've gathered from my time in the Bosnian prison system, any type of escape attempt is interpreted by the guards as a drastic act of attention seeking.
In the past seven years, as journalists, editors, and politicians turned their attention to drastic shifts in our country — new wars, a lousy President, an historic election, and a failing economy — so did poets.
He did not need such a drastic way of attracting attention to his book's true subject: the illicit and unstoppable spread of nuclear weapons to some of the world's most volatile nations.
That is the kind of drastic move that gets attention in business circles, and luring Spitz, whose gold-medal haul made him a national icon, turned heads in the sports world.
"Left with no other remedy for abuses, political prisoners routinely undertake hunger strikes and other drastic measures to call attention to their treatment," the organization said in a report released late last year that criticized Raúl Castro as being as aggressive toward political prisoners as his predecessor and brother, Fidel Castro.
Now, he's on hunger strike, like many other detainees who hope such drastic measures will attract attention to their case.
Researchers across the country are hosting events of similar stature Saturday to call attention to drastic budget cuts to NASA's planetary space program.
Yet he could have used the opportunity to call attention to the drastic gap that has developed since the Reagan era between the rich and the poor in this country.
Also Callum Roberts' "Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea" is a powerful account of the effect humans have had on the ocean and vice versa, with special attention to the drastic impact of industrial-scale fishing using space-age technologies.
