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...many are conducted by mail. But a record 153,000 will be chosen at random to face the bureaucratic equivalent of a rubber-hose interrogation: a line-by-line, show-us-your-bank-statements gauntlet known as the Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program, which triples in size this year. Even scarier for cheaters -- and more annoying for honest taxpayers-4,500 IRS auditors have undergone 32 hours of training in new "economic reality" techniques for intruding deeply into the life-styles of those audited to find evidence of unreported income: for example, questioning where they go on vacation and how they...
Grinspoon's account of the drug's effects are both scarier and, somehow, more prosaic: "Micropsia and macropsia (or megaplosia) have been frequently reported [as well as] the sensation that [people and objects] are rushing toward [the user] at tremendous speed, increasing in size as they approach." He doesn't mention that this peculiar sensation can happen stone-cold-sober when trying to get an autograph at Disney World. I was seven. I was so excited. I walked right up to the Mouse and thrust a pen in his face. Suddenly, I heard a disconcertingly masculine voice emanating from...
Underground Pusey Library also has. good research facilities, but for some it can be even scarier than Widener...
...victory to be had. David was defying Goliath, a Goliath that had held the world in fear for a half-century. It bred a creepy sense of things coming unhinged, of supposed verities turned upside down, of heroes and villains switching roles, of future dangers that looked all the scarier because it was hard to tell which scenario to fear the most...
...violence? But this was not the typical child murder, the experts rushed to explain, not an outburst of uncontrollable rage turned accidentally fatal. This was cold calculation. Parents who began the week trying to explain to their own children about Stranger Danger ended it having to explain something far scarier...