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...comments. But they recall with a chill a road trip through Mississippi where they met with "scathing" stares when they held hands in a Wal-Mart. And while they and couples like them work on narrowing the divisions between groups in America, one couple at a time, their parents fret about their challenges. While Ricks' mother Loeida, a school librarian in LaPlace, La., gamely asserts, "My parents didn't choose for me, and I don't choose for my children," Ricks' father Thomas, a career military man, is less sanguine. "I'm a child of the '60s," he says...
...nobody could sincerely advocate Republican ideas, GOP proposals must be part of some perverse plot to sell the world to the special interests who traditionally fill Republican coffers (like trombonists). Sounds probable enough. It undoubtedly has something to do with that right wing conspiracy Hill and Bill used to fret about...
...next day, Tuesday, Oct. 16, Curseen came down with flulike symptoms. Thinking it was indeed the flu, he kept working. On Wednesday, more than two dozen workers on Capitol Hill tested positive for exposure, and members of Congress began to fret. The bacteria is "very potent and clearly produced by someone who knows what he or she is doing," said Senate leader Daschle. Those alarm bells were prematurely silenced, though, by Tom Ridge, the country's new Director of Homeland Security. "There's no results that would suggest that it has been quote, weaponized, unquote." But 40 members of Daschle...
...their test parameters of desiccated theories that have been around for decades, if not centuries. Molecular biologists use polymerase chain reaction on everything in sight to find the next link in some signaling pathway. Linguists chronicle yet another moribund language. Computer scientists, taking shelter from the dot-com disintegration, fret over the computational efficiency of the next trendy problem. Economists run endless regressions on the next exogenous variable they have failed to account for, and get it wrong anyway. Each field has its stamps, and all are licking and sticking in their favorite journal...
...face every day. But just as I am 1000 times more likely to die on the way to the airport than I am to die on an airplane, the chances of being directly affected by terror is also infinitesimally small, no matter how much psychic space is taken to fret about the possibility of incidents...