Word: panic
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...would have been caught by the California Highway Patrol trying to climb the thing. I would have been saved and put in a mental hospital, and then I'd be at home, dealing with my bipolar, hopefully doing it the right way. I still get the voices, the panic attacks, still feel suicidal at times. I've just got to fight it every...
...then suddenly, only 15 minutes into the demonstration, screams erupted and people began running in every direction in panic. State security had arrived, and before long it was clear that Egypt's authoritarian government still had the upper hand in its year-long struggle with democracy activists...
Granted, the dangers faced by a few thousand Vermonters may not be panic-inducing, but the problems with Vermont Yankee are representative of the dangers of many nuclear power plants. Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has required nuclear plants to gauge their vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack. (NCR ran similar tests in the 1990s but the results were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that...
From the moment parents absorb the shock that their child may be autistic, they enter a dizzying world of specialists, therapists and, alas, purveyors of snake oil. Getting the right help quickly is paramount, but it is hard to make good decisions when you are in a panic or fighting despair...
...Some tourists, perhaps inured by terrorism spanning the globe in recent years, seemed eager to take a stand against the violence by not budging. American Amy Widener, 41, was dining near the blast site with her father and infant son when the explosions sent panic through the area. But she said they would not change their plans to explore the Red Sea's famous coral reefs. "If I go home, the terrorists win," she said. Scuba instructor Anya Kozlova, 25, from Moscow, arrived a year ago to experience the splendors of the Sinai. She went diving in search of body...