Word: fears
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From a handful of radicals at a university, "Otpor" has grown into an organization with 40,000 activists in less than a year, despite constant threats, arrests and violence. By fighting violence with non-violence and the politics of fear and repression with humor, they have found support among the older population. You can hear their slogan everywhere: in the streets, in schools, on soccer fields...
...contract with hospice companies, 90% of hospice patients live at home.) Gans, the retired psychologist who lives alone in a Manhattan high-rise, is worried that she will need medical care at night. More generally, African Americans, Russian immigrants and others who have had less access to health care fear that doctors who recommend hospice are trying to get rid of them. "All people want to die with dignity, but the definition is different," says Dr. Annette Dula, who wrote a book on ethics in African-American medical care. "In the black population, people want aggressive, continuing treatment even...
...cool her down. They tag her, fit a radio transmitter around her neck and extract a baby tooth to study. Then they release her in a wildlife-management area, shooting her with rubber buckshot as she scampers off. That's what Eriksen calls "attitude conditioning," intended to instill a fear of humans. But that fear is often overcome when hunger meets the smell of stale baked goods and other human delicacies, most of which, the bears have learned, do not lead into traps...
Bobby Kennedy--out of self-absorption, recklessness, fear of cowardice, idealism or sheer nervous energy--was a headlong plunger all his life. Toward the end of it, in June 1967, on a rafting trip down cold rapids in the Grand Canyon, Kennedy defied the river guides, who thought it was too dangerous, and threw himself into the white water to tumble wildly down through a slalom of rocks. He did this kind of thing all the time. What was he trying to prove...
Breaking through the personal barriers to get people to talk about issues like faith and fear may be a Moyers forte, but it is not easy to act on in real life, even for the Moyerses. After Bill's mother died a year ago April, on the first day of their shooting the series, he was struck by an image in his mind "of a shadowy figure, the back of whose head I could see as she moved toward an exit sign...Now she's gone, and there's nobody in my native family between me and the exit sign...