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...precipitated a constitutional and societal crisis in an already fragile democracy. "If the King himself has been deprived of justice," asks rickshaw puller Buta Misir, "then what can we poor people expect?" In Kathmandu over the weekend, agitated crowds gathered around the palace, and there were reports of panic buying of staple foods and gasoline. During the royal funeral procession, grieving citizens stoned the Prime Minister and other government officials, blaming them for not doing enough to protect the King...
...broadcast news. "Sony and Panasonic are like ocean liners. They turn, but they turn slowly," says Joseph Bentivegna, an Avid vice president. "By staying nimble, we've been able to keep ahead." For example, when actor Oliver Reed died during the filming of Gladiator, director Ridley Scott didn't panic. His team recycled shots of the slave trainer and, with the help of Avid software, produced two scenes starring Reed...
...questions they asked the scientists to answer. These came from a group of people who'd been out of power for a long time, and suspected that while they were out of power a left-wing conspiracy had sought to take control of energy policy by whipping up a panic based on false science - they clearly believed that asking these questions to their own scientists would disprove the claims of those calling for action on global warming, and so they went to the National Academy of Sciences with questions framed to give them the answers that they wanted to hear...
...animals, birds and demons, the supernatural is often fused with reality, and reason often gets plowed under by superstition. In frightened northern and eastern New Delhi, home to some 4 million people, no neighborhood is dark after sunset anymore. Power outages have been stopped as a result of the panic, and city politicians guarantee electricity will remain on around-the-clock until the monster is caught (or forgotten). Wandering bands of vigilantes guard neighborhoods with wooden cudgels, daggers, field-hockey sticks, ceremonial swords and pikes made from butchers' cleavers. They carry whistles around their necks to warn other neighborhoods...
...used on the night of July 21, 1969, when a car carrying a black family turned onto Newberry Street by mistake. It had got no more than a block when the driver saw a crowd of up to 200 well-armed whites gathered up the street. In a panic the driver tried to turn the car around but stalled it on railroad tracks--then the demarcation between black and white neighborhoods. Lillie Belle Allen, a mother of two visiting York from South Carolina, was in the back seat of the car and offered to help the terrified driver. When...