Word: panic
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...know, the stock market is rallying as you read this, and those graduating seniors at the business school who contracted to receive half their salaries in options where the strike price was set a month ago will not be in the same state of panic as they were this past weekend. More likely, however, Friday's "bloodbath" was the first signal that the economic boom we've experienced will begin to reverse itself somewhat--and that we need to accept the fact that even the roads in cyberspace aren't paved with gold...
Working from circumstantial evidence and surmise, Thomas elaborates his theory of the crime: Patsy Ramsey accidentally killed her daughter in a late-night rage over the child's chronic bed-wetting, mortally wounding her with a blow to the head, and then in a state of panic, tried to make the assault appear to be the result of a botched kidnapping. Patsy penned a ransom note, Thomas alleges, and carried JonBenet to a basement storeroom, where she garroted her. Thomas believes John Ramsey was asleep and unaware of the events until morning, when he discovered the body and moved...
...structures as they swim: the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. But the week after next, at the test event, no one will be thinking about the view. A spate of shark attacks and sightings around Sydney Harbour, including two attacks in two days on schoolboy rowers, has triggered panic among some competitors. "The Europeans are pretty worried about it," says 1997 world champion Chris McCormack. "They're used to swimming in freshwater lakes, where the most you'll find...
...This is another chance for American scientists to formally urge caution," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "And it represents another pebble in the pan tipping the scales away from the seemingly indiscriminate use of modified food technology." Americans may not follow the lead of our European peers and panic at the mere mention of engineered foods, but science will force us to buckle down over the next few years and formulate a plan for our modified food industry - hopefully one that treads the fine line separating paranoia from complacency...
...willing to take these kinds of chances because it's nervous about the rumors of old media's demise. Also, there's a limit to how many times they can show The Simpsons every day. "It's too late for the studios to panic. They've already lost," says director Francis Ford Coppola, whose Zoetrope.com allows filmmakers to read scripts, get feedback, hire directors and show their work. "The minute artists don't need the studios, they'll abandon them." Of course, for now, the big studios still have the stars, the production pizazz and the marketing muscle that bring...