Word: paranoia
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...Petra von Schenck Wiesbaden, Germany Al-Qaeda in America I was disappointed to see that time gave so much coverage to al-Qaeda's latest "threat" to the U.S. [Aug. 16]. It seems as though every time the government hiccups, the media jump in to play on America's paranoia about another terrorist strike. So the government is telling us that al-Qaeda is going to attack, just like on the Fourth of July and this past New Year's and all last year and the year before that? I'm not holding my breath. Allan Weir Nashville, Tennessee...
...Spiegelman's slow, agonizing recovery from the day's trauma, made more difficult by a deeply ingrained paranoia and pessimism, becomes the book's emotional and narrative core. Created over the course of two years, he uses the strips to temper, if not actually resolve, his stress. While the early ones recount the agonizing moments of day - hearing the roar of the impact, retrieving his daughter from her nearby middle school, watching as the second tower collapses - the later strips are more abstract. Spiegelman laments what he sees as the co-opting of September 11 to justify further polarizing acts...
...leave it and save her from such a shock in a public place. It was a uniquely urban moment that would have been perfectly at home in recent books, "Amy and Jordan" by Mark Beyer and "How Loathsome" by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane. Both contain all of the paranoia, sleaze, danger and irresistible vitality of life on the city's edge...
...Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 g, sells for about $35 in Australia but costs only about 70? to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Just as worrying, says Shaun Evans, law-enforcement adviser to the Pacific Islands Forum, ice has brought other crime in its wake: "In the past, organized criminals stuck to one commodity, like heroin or LSD. Now we have polycriminals. Anything that will make money, they will do it." Evans...
Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 gram, sells for about $A50 in Australia but costs only about $A1 to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Countries like Australia and New Zealand (where high-purity crystal meth is fast displacing less potent forms of the drug) are robust enough to absorb some of the damage. Island societies are not. Ice abuse has caused social and economic mayhem in Guam, Palau and Hawaii, says Shaun Evans...