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Edelman stressed the dire predicament of children with AIDS--particularly black children, who constitute a majority of young people with the disease...
...drastically altered the outlook for panic disorder, a chronic illness characterized by recurrent panic attacks and a lifetime of fear in between. The symptoms of an attack--among them palpitations, breathlessness, sweating, dizziness, tingling sensations, hot flashes or chills, as well as a sense of impending doom--seem so dire and life-threatening that patients frequently turn up in emergency rooms convinced they are having a heart attack or going insane. Thirty percent of the 2.4 million Americans with panic disorder go on to develop agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home lest they succumb to panic on the freeway...
...feel the same thing about working in the political arena. Nobody has to come up with more money or basically give a damn about people who are in dire straits or suffering. And yet I believe in the goodness of people to the extent that if you can present your case properly, they will respond, that people are at heart compassionate and will respond. What you have to do, I think, is remove the fear in them. The fear that they might be making a mistake. They don't want to make mistakes. They don't want to come...
...this week, the early winners were the forces of disruption, which, instead of unity, had brought fear. The great promise of sports is that it will take us away, for a moment, from politics and usher us into a green sanctuary where hopes are fresh and struggles have no dire consequences except for gold and silver. And the meaning of the Olympics is that it puts things in a different perspective, in which sprites become giants and heroes become people once again. But the malign calculation of the bomb gave all such shifts a deadly tilt, as if to invert...
Nothing seems so anachronistically delightful as an old movie that takes place in the future. Whatever dire thing people predicted was going to happen didn't. ID4, set in the near future, has that same comforting feeling. It's deja new. And if the picture gives us familiar thrills instead of the paranormal creeps, just wait. Ambitious writers and directors all over Hollywood are busily devising aliens whose evil is bounded only by their creators' imaginations. As Zemeckis says, "We can make them into what we want them to be, whether it's angry and vengeful or benevolent and healing...