Word: panic
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...group is more vulnerable than the Israelis. Iraq lobbed 42 Scuds at Israel during the Gulf War. Only one Israeli was killed by a missile, though 15 died of heart attacks, suffocation in their gas masks or reaction to a chemical-weapon antidote that some took in a panic. Pentagon planners are worried that in a new war, if Saddam again hits Israel with missiles--wishing to ignite a wider conflict that would pit Muslim nations against the U.S. and Israel--Washington would be unable to convince the Israeli government, as it did in 1991, that it should refrain from...
...those of you who get caught up in the gift-giving frenzy of the holidays, don’t panic if you’re not quite sure what to get people special in your life. You still have a whole week before Christmas comes around. Besides, getting a present is fun at any time, so this whole deadline thing honestly isn’t all that important...
Unfounded Panic...
...press conferences and on TV talk shows, he has attacked not just his presidential rivals, but most members of the current government. In a press conference last week, he claimed that Serbian Vice Premier Nebojsa Covic recently ordered his assassination, and that Kostunica's office was "in a panic" to cover up evidence of its ties to organized crime. "They will sell everything that is worth selling to the foreigners and then move to the Bahamas," he said. "My aim," he later explained to TIME, "is to destroy the mafia. I am showing that I am not afraid of criminals...
Heller disagrees, believing her disorder belongs in the canon alongside such conditions as panic attacks and agoraphobia. It does resemble those and other ills--perhaps too much. Her description of an SD sufferer who performs a range of ritualistic chores before bed sounds a lot like someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Another, who shrinks from people at parties because she's sensitive to heat and crowds, sounds like a social phobic. Heller argues that such confusion will clear up when psychologists become more familiar with...