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...career. She began taking college courses with the idea of getting her degree and becoming a paralegal. After the shoe-bomber incident, she desperately wanted to quit and found herself withdrawing from friends, spending most of her days sleeping. At night, she would have bad dreams and wake up anxious, believing she had heard footsteps in the house. "You'd think you'd have more of an appreciation for life, appreciate friends and family more, but I'm scared. I'm scared of the way things are, scared of the future, scared of my ability to provide...
Orange island no longer lives up to its name. The citrus trees that once grew here have long given way to a dense warren of houses and shops. And in recent days, the Xiang River's mustard-colored waters have submerged much of the island itself. Anxious residents in skiffs and rafts paddle their belongings to higher ground or to the river bank a few hundred meters away. A dozen families live in the open air on a concrete sidewalk within sight of their flooded homes and businesses. Rao Houxing stacks a few crates of soda and soy milk that...
...more gumption than common sense and needs lots of rescuing. To put it simply, their adventures may be fantastic, but they are also real children. It's the same with their parents (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino). They are legendary superspies, but she has a touch of the anxious soccer mom about her, and he has a bit of the doofus in him. Any kid will recognize them. The whole family works for a federal espionage agency that's smart enough to hire eager kids as spies - hey, this is a fantasy - but mostly stumbles around in a bureaucratic...
...week to sign the corporate-responsibility bill. O'Neill, Evans and others will attend a series of events promoting good news about the economy. To ward off charges that Bush is lounging on his ranch while the economy burns, he will make trips into the "heartland" to meet with anxious Americans. Topping it off, he will host a day-long economic forum in Waco, Texas...
...facing the death penalty, Eurico Guterres doesn't look anxious. Sitting in a steamy Jakarta courthouse, a ceiling fan whirring overhead, he appears to have given more consideration to choosing his outfit?combat fatigues smartly pressed, a red and white scarf tied fastidiously around his neck?than to saving his own skin. Guterres is a central figure in the first ever human-rights trials held on Indonesian soil, a highly public attempt to account and atone for the carnage that occurred in East Timor in 1999 when the Indonesian military, in conjunction with local militias, viciously turned on supporters...