It may be more than 7,000 miles from Nairobi, Kenya to the United States, but the mall massacre halfway around the world couldn't bring a tragedy any closer to home.
What remained was an Amazon full of dense vegetation and swaths of infertile soil that appeared to be untouched by humans when, in fact, humans had been engineering it for centuries.
And if the son, for example, is at all trying to get into the family's money, in some ways it almost becomes a pay to play, whenever you're paying to play.