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...distinguish from other anxiety disorders. A person who feels compelled to wash or shower dozens of times a day may have a phobic's terror of germs, but a clinician would easily peg the problem as obsessive-compulsive disorder, not a specific phobia. The survivor of an airline crash may exhibit a phobic's panic at even a picture of a plane, but likely as not, the fear is one component of a larger case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Different conditions require different treatments, and without the right care, the problem is unlikely to clear...
Another calm. I think it's over. Wrong. A third storm. Still nothing from the pilot. Seams are holding. I lean in to the window as far as I can. Nothing but black, punctuated by flashes and that dreadful crash of thunder. I'm wearing out my necklace. I want out of this. I close my eyes. Maybe that'll help me cope. Eyes pop back open. Need to see what's going on! Have to get through this. The pilot apparently is. Plane isn't breaking apart...
...leering young men and scratches a police car before picking up an elderly woman at a lewdly named old-folks' home. Then Madonna and gal pal switch to a red Trans Am, set fire to a gas station, run over street hockey players and execute a Thelma & Louise-style crash into a pole. Madonna says her character is "acting out a fantasy and doing things girls are not supposed to do." She and Ritchie will continue their act again soon: the two will...
...Plagued space station finally gets it right, ending its tenure with a safe crash into the Pacific...
DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 68, passionate environmental crusader who founded Greenpeace International in 1979; in a head-on car crash; in the Umbrian countryside near Perugia, Italy. McTaggart inspired a worldwide movement in 1972 by defiantly sailing his boat into a French nuclear test site at the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific...