Word: panic
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...Separation is not an event. It's a process," says Mary Ucci, director of the Child Study Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. "It doesn't happen once. It happens continually over a lifetime." In fact, adults starting a new job are prey to the same prickles of panic that children experience on their first day of the school year...
...canal to a company allegedly controlled by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The catfight over that is just a preview. The canal handover--the U.S. will pass the waterway over to Panama at noon on Dec. 31--is unleashing political separation anxiety in the U.S. and everything from panic to greed in Panama. Le Carre must be amused...
Designer Paco Rabanne had predicted that the Russian Mir station would fall on France during the eclipse. Revelers held a "survivor's party" outside his headquarters. French ornithologists reported panic-stricken reactions of birds, particularly sea gulls, who clamorously flew out to sea, returning once daylight resumed...
Five people would die at All-Tech. And by dusk, Barton, 44, had turned Glock and Colt on himself as police cornered him at a gas station in an Atlanta suburb. By that time, America had seen hours of TV images of panic in Atlanta's streets and of the city's financial center under almost martial rule. As his victims are mourned, the dead murderer's grim story keeps unfolding, with details of financial folly, maudlin suicide notes, adultery, brutality, suspected fraud, even an earlier set of suspected murders. At a time of increased public anxiety over such shooting...
...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...