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...then dread. Of two things. Merilee clambered over Sam and searched for the beach below. No Girl, no Alfred. "Hey keeds!" she bellowed, waking the canary to ruffle and gurgle once in its throat. "Sorry. Birdie," she whispered. "Chow down, keeds!" But no Girl and no Alfred appeared...
...second dread. "Hey Sam, I spent I-don't-know-forty-maybe-fifty-goodies on cosas...
...Columbia Eagle plowed through the calm waters of the Gulf of Siam, the emergency whistle shrieked the signal that all seafarers dread: "Abandon ship...
...predictability and the fading of associated fables, the totality of last week's eclipse over the nation's most populous areas and its unprecedented television coverage carried echoes of ancient forebodings and reminded man again of his cosmic impotence. It may be more common today to dread the world's ending in a nuclear fireball than in deathly darkness, but the loss of light at noontime still suggests the extinction of life. To dream of an eclipse, many psychologists hold, is to confront fears of death and failure. A child born during such an event, contend astrologers...
...gathering tragedy is that Ralphie is not special. Heroin, long considered the affliction of the criminal, the derelict, the debauched, is increasingly attacking America's children. Part of the dread and the danger of the problem is that it spreads all too invisibly. No one knows how many heroin addicts of any age there are in the U.S. But in New York City alone, where most experts think roughly half the heroin users in the U.S. live, 224 teenagers died from overdoses or heroin-related infections last year, about a quarter of the city's 900 deaths from...