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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...
...long ago, West says, a DuPont executive boasted to him about how well his company was now treating the environment. Jolly good, West replied, but was DuPont also prepared for how the environment might treat DuPont? "I asked how many of his company's 300-odd facilities around the world were located in floodplains," West says. Global warming will bring increased risks to anyone located in a floodplain. "He didn't know," West recalls. "I said, 'Don't you think you should...
...There is just something a little odd that I have to demonstrate that I’m not going to harm a subject when the subject has a Kalashnikov,” Stern said, “but I must protect the subject...
...Edward's new benefactor is Peg Boggs, sweet-souled and steel-willed, who somehow convinces her family to accept and house this odd fellow with digital utensils. Peg's neighbors, naturally skeptical of having a monster next door, soon realize that Edward's handicap is also an asset: his scissorhands can sculpt trees into topiary, reshape poodles into dog-show winners and fashion chic hairdos for the ladies. One woman in particular, the vampish Joyce, gets kinda kinky over this man in black with the super-long fingernails, and has a vigorous erotic go at Edward. But his devotion...
...Bible," Conn writes. "Where is the analysis of the role of the Bible in the Inquisition or the Salem witch trials?" They specifically question the tone of a final section, "Freedom and Faith in America," which omits the high court's school-secularization rulings and ends on a truly odd note: a Chinese social scientist attributing the "pre-eminence of the West" to the fact that the "heart of your culture is ... your Christianity." Unlike most of the book, this seems written by Stetson the true believer who took Colson's Centurion program...