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...only a nightmare of course, but Cheney can count on a frigid reception in the hot Saudi desert nonetheless. The signs of deep Saudi anger and panic over how Washington has bungled Iraq have been surfacing for the last two months. In March King Abdallah hosted Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who in normal times is a man whose head Abdallah would prefer to lop off than talk to. Two weeks later, at an Arab summit, King Abdallah called the American presence in Iraq an "illegal occupation," the same description the Iranians use. In April, King Abdallah reportedly cancelled a visit...
Unlike the experts who pick the TIME 100, these people have a wide-ranging set of experiences, from taking their clothes off to beating people up. This was not a group that was going to pick Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So I had a moment of panic when Xzibit, the first to read from his list, named Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This was followed by relief when he said, "Because he always has a tight blazer on." The others weren't so excited about Ahmadinejad, but they all agreed with Xzibit that Al Gore is the most important person in the world...
...when the left-wing, anti-U.S. leader ascended a raucous stage in front of a petrochemical plant in eastern Venezuela today - May Day, the leftiest day of the year - and announced his government's takeover of the nation's lucrative heavy oil industry, it sent the usual panic through Washington and the international media. "It's national power!" shouted Chavez, who controls the hemisphere's largest crude reserves. "We can't have socialism if the state doesn't have control over its resources...
People who have not experienced a psychotic break, a panic attack, a depressive episode, an obsessive cycle, a want to hurt themself or a want to die—the feeling of being out of control that symptomizes mental illness—generally do not understand the anguish of these experiences. Not mean-spiritedness, but rather a lack of empathy—stemming, presumably, from a lack of knowledge—must therefore be the source of these claims: “I’m so depressed! I got a C- on my exam...
...loss of energy. “People develop really negative thinking that has no basis in reality” which seems rational to the sufferer, Barreira said. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness, affecting 11 percent of the population in a general medical setting, he said. Panic attacks, another subset of anxiety disorder, are characterized by sweaty palms, palpitations and often a “feeling of impending doom,” Barreira said. Panic attacks often consist of three phases starting with the initial attack, which is followed by stages of withdrawal and avoidance. An extreme result...