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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...
...text and instant messaging replace our face-to-face chats, perhaps it's become easier to disconnect. We're more comfortable talking with a non-judgmental search engine about our problems, or maybe we're simply afraid of what our fears reveal about ourselves, that's #173 in the list also known as Phobophobia, "fear of fear...
...offers companies seeking capital a chance to dip into London's deep investor pool under lighter regulations than those on competing markets. That's got U.S. rivals in a spin. As overseas firms bypass New York to trade on AIM - which now lists more than 300 foreign companies, one-fifth of them from the U.S. - it has faced accusations of lax standards. In January, NYSE CEO John Thain claimed AIM "did not have any standards at all, and anyone could list." A month later, Roel Campos, a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded...
...Central Committee member told TIME that Abbas was prepped to remind Rice that most Palestinians opposed his meeting the U.S. delegation and to say: "You've come to me with a list of Israeli demands. Where is your list of our demands for the Israelis?" Abbas supposedly agreed. It was only after TIME published these remarks as we admit here, and the State Department denied that Abbas had confronted Rice, that the influential Fatah chiefs learned their boss had not followed through. "Frankly, I'm not surprised," one angry committee member remarked afterwards, "Abbas doesn't respect...
After weeks of trash-talking on open lists, furious debate about T-shirt designs, and age-old rituals dedicated to the housing gods, Housing Day arrived, a madhouse of early-morning wake-up calls, face paint, and screaming mascots. And just as freshmen reaction ranged yesterday from joy to tears, upperclassmen showed their House spirit in a variety of ways, from a moonbounce to a Beirut tournament. Mather House, long famed for its Housing Day fervor, gathered its army of over 100 residents to storm the Yard at 7 a.m., according to spirited Matherite Troy C. Murrell...