Word: panic
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...rough baseline from a conversation at the height of last fall's financial panic with Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is an expert on the Great Depression. "I doubt that we'll be able to avoid double-digit unemployment," he told me. "But I'm still confident we can avoid 24% unemployment like...
...only person who thinks so. Earlier this month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled an "emergency plan" for teaching foreign languages in the nation's schools with the lofty objective that "all our high school students must become bilingual, and some should be trilingual." Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual GDP on education - the fifth-highest percentage in the world - simply must do better than its current rank of 69th among 109 countries on the standardized Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has proposed exposing students...
...most persistent Halloween bogeyman is tainted candy from strangers. The parental panic may stem from around 1964, when a woman handed out dog biscuits, steel-wool pads and ant poison (clearly marked with a skull-and-crossbones logo) to teenagers she deemed too old to be trick-or-treating. The horror story refuses to die down. "In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy," Ann Landers wrote in 1995. (See the top 25 horror movies of all time...
...Read "H1N1 National Emergency: Time for Concern, Not Panic...
President Obama's Oct. 24 decision to officially declare the H1N1 swine-flu virus a national emergency came with a speedy caveat: Don't panic. The declaration was just a formality, the White House explained, a way to allow hospitals to circumvent unnecessary restrictions in order to bring about quicker, more effective swine-flu treatment. Yes, H1N1 cases are on the rise - 46 of the 50 states are experiencing widespread influenza activity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - but it's hardly a horrific doomsday scenario and nothing like the movie Outbreak...