Word: panic
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With its fudging CEOs and murky auditors, corporate America has managed to do what al-Qaeda failed to do last fall. It has aroused fear, uncertainty and panic among Americans. Unsure when the next act of corporate terrorism will occur and helpless as markets and savings fall to lows not seen in years, most Americans no longer know whom to trust or how to invest. Forget Osama bin Laden. For now, the enemies are indeed within our borders. We need to root them out and prosecute them. BRUCE SHIVLEY Oxford...
...times a year, a passenger plane crashing somewhere in the European Union? On average, 110 people killed, 4,650 injured, every day? Impossible, of course. There would be panic, uproar, governments falling in the face of such unremitting carnage. But the only lie in this horrendous scenario is the word plane. Substitute car, and that is the annual swath in the E.U. - 40,000 people dead, another 1.7 million injured, with a little help from trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and errant pedestrians. Numbers to make a bin Laden blanch...
...fame might not be much--unless you're a fish, in which case that flash of notoriety is more than you had a right to expect in the first place. When it comes to the northern snakehead--the reputed land-walking, air-breathing, migrating Chinese predator that caused such panic when it turned up in a Crofton, Md., pond last month--the story may be even harder to kill than the fish. Faced with snakehead sightings in six other states, the Bush Administration--its hands arguably full with the war on terrorism, the Wall Street meltdown and the ongoing parade...
...been said that you can gauge her mood by whether her hair is straight (foul) or curly (ebullient). These days her mane is growing wild, with good reason. She and her husband, New York Times reporter Bernard Weinraub, have their first child, and with hits like Panic Room, Spider-Man and Men in Black II, the chairman of Sony's Columbia Pictures has generated more than $1 billion at the box office this year. Some in Hollywood are skeptical about the profitability of films with such expensive stars and special effects, but her summer slate of pictures has broken...
...parents wondering if it's safe to let their kids even leave the living room without supervision, the most reassuring part of Erica's story is that, faced with a situation in which many adults would panic, she kept her head and saved herself. In the end, maybe the best defense you can give your kids is not a blind fear of strangers but rather instilling self-assurance and presence of mind. "I have 21 years in the Police Department," said Philadelphia Police Inspector William Colarulo, "and I have never seen this kind of heroic act of bravery committed...