IT is midnight in Rantau Panjang, Kelantan. Ten-year-old Ameera finds herself surrounded by water. The floods have crept into the house that is built three feet above ground.
IMAGINE a child sitting at a table, staring at a single marshmallow. A researcher explains the rules: “You can eat this now or if you wait 15 minutes, you will get two marshmallows instead.”
ALEXANDER the Great of Macedonia, who reigned from 356 to 323 BC, was known to have said: “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion”.