Word: berserk
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...laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999, a teenage assailant knifed and killed a seven-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper-delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. In December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, injuring eight strangers with a baseball...
...controls my high-speed Internet connection went on strike. That meant no e-mail, no Web and lots of hyperventilation. I couldn't listen to music, since the PC no longer recognized the external hard drive where all my MP3s were stored. And some of my favorite games went berserk, apparently because my machine had fallen out with its own graphics card...
...killers planned carefully. Before the slaughter, they shut off the town's electricity generator. They checked identity cards to identify Madurese, sparing immigrants from Java. This was no outburst of berserk blood lust, but ethnic cleansing at its most cold-blooded...
...this is not a PC factory gone berserk. This is the place where old computers go to die. IBM's Asset Recovery Center in Endicott, N.Y., is one of the largest PC junkyards in the world. Some 40 million lbs. of computers are dismantled here each year...
Canadians are generally a tolerant bunch. But last summer the nation of 30 million nearly went berserk when record demand for air travel led to a spate of flight delays, cancellations and lost baggage. Unlike Americans, whose similar woes might come from a dozen airlines and agencies, Canadian flyers had a solo target for their rage: Boston-born Robert Milton, 40, the in-your-face president and CEO of Air Canada, the country's dominant carrier. Newspaper columnist Scott Feschuk, writing in the National Post, summed up the mood neatly: "Dear Bob, Your freaking airline totally sucks. Sincerely, Everyone." Even...