Word: feared
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...Nation has gone "downtown," why are the police so concerned? According to Richie Perez, the founder of the Young Lords, the police ignore gang activity as long as the gangs are fighting each other. Their greatest fear, says Perez, is that "street gangs will become politicized." King Tone describes his dedication to this cause, saying "I'm willing to die to change my people's condition." Responding to the arrests of "Operation Crown," Tone states "that's power-when they arrest you for nothing but being...
...from the raging romantic, Melville's Starbuck was a prudent husband of sober Christian morals. He was the one mariner not afraid to confess his fear of whales, a problematic phobia on a whaling expedition. At the end of the book (sorry to give away those suspenseful 300 last pages), when the ship's captain ruthlessly pursues omnipotent Moby Dick, Starbuck contemplates mutiny. But, his respect for authority outweighs Starbuck's determination to return alive to wife and kids. He puts back the knife and ultimately drowns with the rest of the crew, while chasing the whale. Not quite...
...blue fish, Harvard students are privy to all these magical slippery scales. The fish range in size from one to two feet long, and although they are fed daily, they appreciate dining hall treats---not to mention the occasional suck on a meaty finger or toe. But have no fear, unlike the students at the business school, these toothless fish are not of the piranha persuasion...
...positive effect on schools," he says. In Cleveland, the test scores of students who used the vouchers show a slight improvement in some subjects and a decline in others. Classes are smaller than in public schools, which is considered good, but teachers are generally less qualified. But the biggest fear is that vouchers could balkanize cities and states. "Public schools used to be the great melting pot," Cohen notes, "and that's being lost." Especially in the cultural melange that is Florida, that's something worth remembering...
First developed by psychologist Barbara Rothbaum and computer scientist Larry Hodges to combat fear of heights, VR exposure therapy works on the principle that if you can train people to relax in a simulation of a scary situation, they will relax when confronted with the real thing. I visited the Virtually Better clinic in Atlanta, which charges $150 for a one-hour session. It provides a headset and plane seat that immerse you in a 3-D virtual airplane, complete with vibrations, engine sounds, flight-attendant call bells, and--at touchdown--tire squeals...