Word: fears
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...economic decline, the unchecked corruption allowed by a mix of private and state ownership, and major weaknesses in the country's industrial, financial and legal infrastructure all threaten China's ability to maintain the breakneck pace of economic growth necessary to absorb its burgeoning unemployed population. And that makes fear of instability the dominant motif in the thinking of China's leaders...
...even if it means maiming the characters. Five of the album's seven weirdos/perverts end up arrested, beaten or dead (don't worry; the midget remains untouched). Still, hardcore Sandler fans worried that The Wedding Singer and Big Daddy signaled the end of his outrageous ribaldry should have no fear. One of the funniest songs, "She Comes Home to Me," is dedicated to a highly paid prostitute. Tender and heartwarming, you can see the singer's love for this woman in the beautiful lyrics: "she'll go down on a yak / lick a horse's nut sack." For those...
Remember the China syndrome? Hardly anyone does, because nuclear meltdown is no longer a major fear in the U.S. But Japan Thursday faced the worst nuclear emergency in its history, after an accident at a fuel processing plant put 14 people in the hospital and forced mass evacuations. Officials said that a nuclear reaction may still be continuing inside the Tokaimura fuel processing plant, which was evacuated after workers saw blue flames rising above a batch of fuel and complained of nausea. Radiation levels 15,000 times higher than normal were reported around the plant, the site of Japan...
...nuclear fuel is dangerous and the price of using it is that there will be accidents every now and again." But a government that plans to supply almost half of the country's energy needs with nuclear power by 2010 may have to do some fast talking. After all, fear of radiation resonates deeply in the land of Godzilla ? and Hiroshima...
Ever since the passage of Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights activists have feared that abortion opponents, by chipping away at federal law, could eventually succeed in having abortions classified as murders. But this bill, says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, is unlikely to create much of a dent. "I very much doubt that this bill will pass," he says, "and even if it did, it would probably be struck down by the Supreme Court, since it flies in the face of the court?s existing stand on reproductive rights." If defeat is almost guaranteed, what?s in this campaign...