Word: paranoia
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...reasons for the fusion furor are more complicated than just the prospects of riches and fame. Scientists and university administrators are ; sometimes driven by the same sort of base emotions -- like jealousy and paranoia -- that often motivate less intellectually lofty folks, and the peculiar circumstances of this discovery helped ignite a number of long- smoldering resentments. For one thing, fusion and other subatomic phenomena that are usually studied with giant nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have long been the private domain of physicists. Chemists, on the other hand, were more likely to be studying how to make a better laundry...
...world." His face assumes a mournful set: "I've been ripped off by my friends big time; they get down into the bag, on the pure stuff, and get paranoid, and right away they want to get you first." Too much crank can easily produce self- destructive paranoia...
...growing paranoia justified? How safe are the U.S. food and water supplies? The reassuring answer: very safe. In fact, the country's food and water systems are the safest in its history and among the safest in the world today. Despite all the alarms, the dangers to human health appear to be quite small...
...feast seem pretty good. If food and water were as dangerous as some people think, a lot more of us would be getting sick. U.S. food and water supplies have undeniable problems that need increased attention from the Government and consumers. Even so, the current climate of panic and paranoia is an overreaction...
...return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose only sin may be eccentricity. It's sort of a lynch-mob movie for laughs -- laughs that are meant to catch in the back of your throat, like movie-house popcorn that turns out to be all kernels. One of the new neighbors...