Word: doomsdayers
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...friends have started making lists. Not the usual late-October variety: buy Thanksgiving ticket home, start attending Lit and Arts B section, finally pick up course pack from Gnomon. No, these lists have more of a doomsday quality, a sense that they signify some clock ticking down to a college apocalypse—a clock that is just beginning to become audible. These lists have titles written in red, sometimes underlined twice. And rather than being creased and tucked into the back pocket of one’s blue jeans, they have made their way to the marquis of college...
...same time, however, we must be careful not to allow doomsday prophecies and other scare-mongering to provoke extreme reactions. Stockpiling huge quantities of vaccines or antibiotics may be expensive and ultimately ineffective, especially in an age when mutant germs and antibiotic-resistant microbes can be easily developed. Instead, investing in intelligence missions, research and the public health infrastructure should provide more value and security in the long...
...possible that people living in other parts of the country may be moving close enough to glimpse it. The repeated slow-motion images of the towers swooning and buckling, the shots of victims tarred and feathered with blood and dust, the very ordinariness of the workday exploding into a doomsday may exact a psychological toll as people wonder whether the same hell will be visited on them...
...When people talk about $2 billion a month in lost revenue for L.A. and 82,000 lost jobs, they?re talking about a doomsday scenario...
...have come to expect this "Chicken Little" behavior from typical doomsday prophets like the self-important Bob Costas, but lately even more rational commentators--including writers for this very sports page--have been sucked in by the mania...