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Staying home in the face of danger isn't the British way. After suicide bombings in July 2005, Londoners continued working and socializing. Yet a survey by kids' charity TS Rebel found that last year more than a fifth of Britons avoided going out at night rather than risk encounters with a different form of terror: groups of children. Britons are frightened of their own young...
...skinhead groups - right-wing politics. Today's gangs aren't even that discriminating, determining fitness for membership by nothing more meaningful than postal codes. Hanad Ahmed and Tashan Edwards, both 14, live in east London. "I can't bring friends around my area because I'm putting them in danger, as well as myself," says Ahmed, who lives in a different district from his school. "If they don't live in the same postcode, there's a chance they'll get robbed...
...world through nuclear war or other man-made mishaps has only been comprehended and communicated through science fiction. Even the current threat posed by climate change is along the lines of science fiction. It’s not a moral struggle between good and evil but instead a danger formed by our irresponsible and selfish use of technology...
...might be the most difficult year for China's economy, because there are a lot of uncertainties both inside and outside the country.' WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, on the danger posed by rising inflation and a slumping global economy Numbers
...driven out of business by such lender squeezes, starting last summer with two mortgage funds run by Bear Stearns. But Bear itself still turned a small profit in 2007. As late as the first week of March this year, there was no reason to think it was in imminent danger. Then rumors began flying that it was. Lenders refused to lend, clients refused to trade, and suddenly Bear was out of money. It was a bank run, more or less. And the scary thing was that there is no entirely satisfactory explanation for why it hit Bear. One may emerge...