Word: fears
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Show me a human fear, and i'll show you a monster. Our ancestors populated dark forests with dragons and uncharted seas with krakens. Sci-fi transmuted commies and nukes into body snatchers and Godzilla. In the 1990s, The X-Files turned post-Vietnam paranoia into an elaborate government-alien conspiracy...
...Dubailand in Dubai and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes abuilding in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman who asked not to be identified for fear of offending King Abdullah, who is personally keen on the new city that bears his name. "It is the Saudis saying to the rest of the Arabs, 'We can build bigger than the rest...
...many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits of international economic cooperation in times of crisis, as witnessed by the recent round of consultation among the G-7 countries and the coordinated efforts...
Kennedy is a professor of history at Stanford University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression...
...form, this racism cautions us to stick with our own—that identity outweighs both class and convictions. One woman I met worried that Obama would leverage the presidency against whites. “It’s the reckoning,” she said simply.The racism of fear is subtler and more insidious than the kind of our past. It thrives on silence and political correctness—on the avoidance of the race issue at all costs, and on our willingness to pretend it is something else entirely. And it festers, for that reason, among the middle...