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...Perhaps the life review is the brain frantically scanning its memory banks for a way out of this crisis. The images of a bright light and tunnel could be due to impairment at the rear and sides of the brain respectively, while the euphoria may be a neurochemical anti-panic mechanism triggered by extreme danger...
...indicated that 47% of Moroccans would vote for Morocco's Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD). That 47% turns out to be a curiously recurrent statistic. In 1991, the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front won the first round of elections with 47%, an outcome that plunged the military into panic and the country into a bloody civil war. This July, Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) was victorious in parliamentary elections, winning 47% of the vote. While the Turkish generals are uneasy with the akp's success, there's no reason to think that its rise will lead...
...their decision to continue the campaign despite her cancer's recurrence, that he is accused of being power-hungry and she of playing the victim card. Elizabeth explains the decision in the new chapter. After her biopsy results came back, she writes, she burst into tears "from panic at the thought that this cancer might take him out of the race. It might have seemed odd to someone who had not spent years in this fight, but this was his life and mine...
...self-fulfilling panic, one that really needs to be nipped in the bud. At banks serving retail customers, it is automatically nipped these days by federal deposit insurance. Fretful depositors have still lined up at branches of the bank arm of troubled mortgage lender Countrywide, but there's really no rational reason...
Bruner has been thinking about this a lot lately because he has co-written, with his Darden colleague Sean D. Carr, a fortuitously timed new book titled The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm. That year saw a string of bank failures and a stock-market collapse that was halted only when J.P. Morgan browbeat his fellow moguls into ponying up cash to stop the panic. The 1907 crisis in turn led to the creation of the Federal Reserve, which was supposed to do what Morgan did, only more reliably...