Word: panic
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...vague warnings of the past week gnaw at public morale because they don't offer much help in preparation of defenses against attacks, but do spread panic - which, of course, is a large part of the terrorists' intention. From al-Qaeda's point of view, the warnings are the ultimate freebie. After all, terrorism is not warfare in the conventional sense, where the object is to project power in order to destroy an enemy's military capability. Terrorism is more in the nature of violence-as-propaganda, using spectacular attacks to terrorize an enemy's support base as well...
...legislators within Arafat's Palestinian Authority had already drawn up proposals to replace his Cabinet within 45 days. Arafat's insistence, however, that elections depended on an Israeli withdrawal left Sharon with his own plan on the table: an "interim" Palestinian government, appointed from outside. LIBERIA Rebels Beaten Back Panic seized the capital, Monrovia, as government troops battled rebel fighters within earshot of the city. Soldiers loyal to President Charles Taylor reclaimed his home town of Arthington, 25 km away, and said they killed more than 120 rebels in towns farther north. The U.N. condemned rebel attempts to take power...
...panic I sometimes feel at my limited procreative shelf life often gives way to anger that I cannot control my ability to bear a child. Some of us are so adept at multitasking, we have come to believe that having children is a biological right. For those women who want children, the failure to have them not only teaches a sobering lesson in the limitations of science, it also provides a discomfiting look at one's own mortality. PAMELA MATHIASEN Los Angeles...
...Getting rid of that stigma means addressing mental illnesses with the same seriousness as physical ones. "I think there are disorders that should absolutely be covered, like depression or panic disorders," says Dr. Wayne Katon, vice chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "They should be treated exactly like medical disorders - because they are medical disorders. Not covering them means we don't believe these are real disorders, and on a scientific basis we're way past that way of thinking...
...office success of the Hollywood thriller Panic Room has inspired a flood of requests for similar hideaways from people building new homes, contractors say. Such rooms have long been popular among wealthier homeowners (and in Israel, where bullet- and fire-resistant security rooms have been mandated for all new buildings and apartments since 1992). But real-life panic rooms are not necessarily like the one in the movie. For one thing, they're usually called (less alarmingly) safe rooms. Most are smaller and less elaborate than the model in the film...