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...concern that many express is fear that insurance companies could use negative information gleaned from the genomes to deny health insurance to certain individuals...
What frightens you? -Michael O'Brien, Chandler, Ariz.I can't say that there is anything specific that frightens me except these questions as to whether life has meaning and whether God is really with us. My worst fear is that the world is meaningless and I'm deluded-that I won't ever see people that I have lost again, my daughter who died when she was a little girl and my husband who died in 2002. I think all Christians face that fear...
...Democrats know well how hard a Clinton will fight when everything is on the line and have learned from experience that they have reason to fear the consequences. In 1993 Bill Clinton's economic plan passed the House by a single vote, with Republicans waving their hankies at the Democrats whose votes put it over the top. Sure enough, the following year, most of the party's more vulnerable members were gone - and with them, the Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, which had also fallen victim to the resounding rejection of Hillary's health-care plan...
Another longtime leader in the solidarity movement, who spoke under the condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal, said anyone who thought Ortega's reelection would mark a return of revolution is "freeze-dried in the 1980s." The Ortega of today, she said, represents the same economic and business interests as the conservative right, only with a "schizophrenic discourse" that tries to tap the revolutionary appeal of the past...
...used for security reasons, also disputed parts of the al-Saadi's account. He believes the Australian government handled the matter poorly at the time and failed to keep soldiers informed about the case and the al-Saadi family's move to Australia. "It was always my worst fear. I knew this thing was never going to go away," says the private, who, a month earlier, had been in a vehicle that was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives...