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...pajamas and toys for a couple of weeks. And of course, promising to make sure that no more scary movies would come his way until he was 13. These solutions worked, so that after a week Johnny was back to his sweet self except for a tinge of persistent Arachnophobia (another PG-13 movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor's View: When Movies Keep Kids Up | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...oise Ducros, a top aide to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, resigned after she was overheard privately telling a reporter that the U.S. president was a "moron." Opposition politicians accused Chrétien of further souring his relations with Bush by being slow to accept the resignation. MEANWHILE Arachnophobia Britain's largest supermarket chain, Tesco, had a hairy problem on its hands after six women found Black Widow spiders in grapes. While the chain does allow predators to protect organic fruit from pests, Tesco said its suppliers don't deliberately use Black Widows, whose venom is 15 times deadlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 12/1/2002 | See Source »

...albuminurophobia:.. .kidney disease alektorophobia: ... chickens alliumphobia: ... garlic allodoxaphobia: ... opinions amathophobia: ... dust amaxophobia: ... riding in a car ambulophobia: ... walking amychophobia: ... being scratched anablephobia: ... looking up androphobia: ... men anemophobia: ... wind Anglophobia: ... Britain anthophobia: ... flowers antlophobia: ... floods anuptaphobia: ... staying single apeirophobia: .... infinity apiphobia: ... bees arachibutyrophobia: ... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth arachnophobia: ... spiders arithmophobia: ... numbers asthenophobia: ... fainting astrophobia: ... celestial space ataxiophobia: ... muscular incoordination ataxophobia: ... untidiness atelophobia: ... imperfection athazagoraphobia: ... being forgotten or ignored atychiphobia: ... failure aulophobia: ... flutes aurophobia: ... gold auroraphobia: ... northern lights automatonophobia: ... ventriloquist dummies, wax statues automysophobia: ... being dirty aviophobia: ... flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phobias From A to Z | 3/24/2001 | See Source »

...three or four packages of frozen or freeze-dried venom, usually to pharmaceutical and chemical companies. It's a hard way to make a living, even when it is supplemented by income from odd jobs like the technical-adviser gig Chuck landed for the 1990 film Arachnophobia. So for most of the past decade, Chuck handed scaled-back day-to-day operations of Spider Pharm to Anita--a former machinist from Czechoslovakia who has become as smitten as her husband with spiders--while he worked for American Cyanamid, helping the company investigate spider venom for possible use in new insecticides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Creepy Cellar Of The Merchant Of Venom | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...could be called Total Recall (so reminiscent are they of previous action hits), the films of July and August could be labeled Presumed Interesting. Moviegoers are looking for something different, and they may have already found it in the postmortem romantic thriller Ghost or the eye-spider horror comedy Arachnophobia. Presumed Innocent hopes to corner the serious market. Even David Lynch is invading summertime with his bizarro-world Wild at Heart. Each hopes to duplicate the surprise-hit status of last summer's When Harry Met Sally, Dead Poets Society, Parenthood and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If It Worked Before, Do It Again | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

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