THE ENEMY Can you name these symbols? What is the common denominator? HOW CAN A SYMBOL CARRY SO MUCH POWER? BYSTANDER EFFECT About the Author: PEAR S. BUCK Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.A. Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China, where she spent most of the first forty years of her life. The Sydenstrickers lived in Chinkiang, in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) province, then a small city lying at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. Pearl's father spent months away from home, itinerating in the Chinese countryside in search of Christian converts. From childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. In 1910, Pearl enrolled in Randolph-Macon Women’s College, in Lynchburg, Virginia, from which she graduated in 1914. In 1915, she met a young Cornell graduate, an agricultural eco...