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...Things get interesting when you get past the top ten "fear of" searches to the very long list of very individual and odd concerns. Among the unusual fears - such as: feet, happiness, lint, ceiling fans or even the "fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth" - lives an interesting pattern. Sifting through over 1500 "fear of" searches in the last 12 weeks there are two opposites that play out repeatedly: we're afraid of being isolated ("fear of being alone") almost as much as we are of making a connection ("fear of intimacy...
...border village of Alma Shaab. With the coordinates logged into a GPS device, Ghaith and I walked carefully along a track winding through blossom-scented orange orchards at the bottom of a steep-sided brush-covered valley. Snakes and lizards basking in the hot sun slithered from beneath our feet. But we kept our eyes open for cluster bombs, which have since August caused 224 casualties among Lebanese civilians and mine-clearing crews, which had used red spray paint to mark the location of each bomblet...
...accelerated altitude climbs to get to an airspace directed by JFK airport flight control, the A380 cruised at 39,000 ft. At full capacity, holding 519 people, the plane would be 569 metric tons or 1.3 million lbs. And, in mid-flight, the wings would tilt up 12 feet to hold the load - looking not unlike the downward sweeping motion of a bird...
Over the next 50 years, we might need a little more poetry. Europe is a thought that has to become a feeling--one based on the belief that Europe stands only if injustice falls and that we find our feet only when our neighbors stand with us in freedom and equality. Our humanity is diminished when we have no mission bigger than ourselves. And one way to define who we are might be to spend more time looking across the eight miles of Mediterranean Sea that separates Europe from Africa...
...will be permanently targeted," he says before he paints a grim-yet-goofy picture of a possible terrorist attack on Czech soil: "A dam blows up and Saint Wenceslas [represented by his statue in Prague] will get his feet...