Word: afraid
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...recent poll, he notes that more Americans view themselves as nonbelievers than the population of Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined. "Yet," he says, "you don't see that group having a caucus in Congress or anywhere else. It's a group that's been in the closet. People are afraid to 'come out' to their families and say they don't believe in God." The ads are designed to show lonely atheists that they do not walk alone - and they can go on disbelieving...
...confusing, hateful and destructive. The record label [told me], Take it off the album. Rather than do so, I decided to produce it on the inside of the sleeve with a different name, so it'll be sold in Wal-Mart or wherever stores sell guns but are afraid to deal with lyrics. So I put "Pretty as a ($)" because all of their motivations are based on money. (Watch TIME's video from the 2009 SXSW Music Festival...
...Olympics. But generally it was not hawkishly displayed on front lawns, from cars or on bare flesh. My husband asked one of the revelers why he was wearing the flag. He grinned and drawled, "Why? Because we're Australians, mate. We're proud of it, and we're not afraid to say it." (See pictures of Australia's hidden islands...
...month after the H1N1 virus first grabbed the world's attention, we're still pondering the essential question: how afraid of swine flu should we be? The answer is that we may not know for weeks or months - the world has been hit with pandemics before, but what is happening now is unprecedented. "For the first time in humanity, we are seeing, or we may be seeing, pandemic influenza evolving in front of our eyes," said Margaret Chan, the director-general of the WHO, at the agency's annual meeting...
...decision at the time had no ground in legislation and Langer, now 31, sued the head of state. The courts have since ruled in Langer's favor, but the president, who can't be punished for anything other than treason, has so far refused to install him. "I am afraid that he will not respect the verdict," Langer told TIME in an e-mail...