Word: triggered
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...driver's license. The agent wasn't in a rush and laughed to himself that the two brothers were such infrequent flyers they didn't know they could check in at the empty first-class counter. But the two were patient, pleasant, low key. There was really nothing to trigger alarms as the brothers and three other passengers of Arab ethnicity boarded American Airlines Flight 77 for Los Angeles...
...drugs. Left alone, PTSD can become completely disabling. Treatment with a trained therapist, however, can be marvelously straightforward. Reliving the experiences in a controlled way--by talking about them, calling them up and laying them bare--strips them of their power to harm. Gradual exposure to the things that trigger anxiety--elevators, skyscrapers, airplanes--can also help. In some cases, so may antidepressants...
...senior official confirmed that the air traffic system is on such a hair trigger that military jets have been scrambled more than a dozen times since Sept 11 to investigate other possible hijackings - all of which turned out to be routine mistakes such as transponder problems, the temporary loss of radio contact between an aircraft and the air traffic controllers, or airplanes straying slightly off their intended flight paths...
...What he cannot guarantee is what the trigger-pullers will do - and the investors, big and small, that stand behind them. Tuesday the talk was of a panic selloff, Wednesday of a patriot?s rally. By Thursday the markets had been closed for longer than anyone alive could remember, and by Monday, the emotional graph seems to suggest, investors and their stock markets could be back to very nearly a rational state...
...deeper question is whether there's any real hope that these two communities can be reintegrated in the future. Despite the security presence, things are unlikely to get back to normal any time soon. Right now it would take very little to trigger a return to the levels of fighting we saw a few weeks ago. Despite the peace process, there's still small arms fire every night. There's also the issue of how much restraint the Macedonian security forces will show after the disarmament is completed. The recent Human Rights Watch report on incidents last March showed...