Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streak? Why don't you streak? I know why you don't, because I, too, have had doubts. For one thing, you're afraid that you'll never be President if you drop trou for the masses. I think, however, that the example set by our current chief executive should put those fears to rest. And any evidence that shows up twenty years from now will testify to your ability to bear close scrutiny and to do what is necessary for your peers when called upon to serve. Plus, if you choose your vices carefully over the next few decades...
Perhaps you're afraid of being naked in front of hundreds of people. I assure you that at the speed you're jiggling by, no one will remember what you look like. So many people streak that the crazed crowd will have trouble matching, say, a breast with the face of its rightful owner. Nor will your fellow runners remember much, and if they do, who cares? You've seen them naked...
...most common excuse for staying clothed is the cold weather. But as any streaker will testify, the adrenaline flooding your veins will keep you warm. And for men who are afraid of the "shrinkage factor," induced by nerves as much as by the cold, just remember that it's happening to everybody else as well, and no one out there will notice...
...wide community. Which upperclass student does not recall with great fondness the days of being a first-year, popping in to visit friends and vice versa? The result of restricted access is the relegation of socialization to electronically pre-arranged encounters. Moreover, it is simply more convenient. We are afraid to say this because we think it makes us seem selfish or reckless, but we shouldn't be. In the end, we will never get anywhere if each side continues to stubbornly argue its version of the safety issue. So how de we go about achieving universal access? First...
...quirky and weird, but they are an area where First Amendment rights are bumping up against commercial interests," says Emory University law professor David Bederman, who tried unsuccessfully to challenge Georgia's food-disparagement law. If such laws had existed in the 1960s, environmentalists say, people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle, a free and open discourse about food safety has been critical," says Lawrie Mott, a senior scientist with the Natural...