Word: scared
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...talk about the most important issues on everyone's mind--the war in Iraq and national security. And not to talk about Bush's tax cuts. Instead, the Democrats ran on three issues: they blamed Bush for the recession, without offering an alternative; they tried to scare senior citizens about the privatization of Social Security; they offered a wildly expensive prescription-drug plan for the elderly without proposing any reform of the Medicare system. This was not only ineffective and uninspiring, it was disgraceful...
VIETNAM Decks containing only the ace of spades were passed out to U.S. troops. They would display a card on their helmets to scare away the Viet Cong, who were thought to be superstitious about the card because fortune tellers considered it a harbinger of suffering and death. In this year's Iraqi deck, the ace of spades is--who else? Saddam Hussein...
...when it promises to treat them for free. With little cash or access to affordable conventional medicines, some have resorted to ancient remedies. Villagers living near the city of Xizhou, one of the poorest areas of SARS-hit Shanxi province, spent the night of May 6 lighting firecrackers to scare the disease away. Days later, the Worker's Daily criticized the practice, saying "the spread of superstition is another type of epidemic" that will "disturb and injure the people." What's really injuring rural people, though, is the lack of an adequate health system to care for them...
...Issue Past Issues Inside The Matrix May 12, 2003 ----------------- China: SARS Nation May 5, 2003 ----------------- Asian Heroes Apr. 28, 2003 ----------------- Fall of Saddam Apr. 21, 2003 ----------------- Saddam's Last Stand Apr. 14, 2003 ----------------- The SARS Scare Apr. 7, 2003 ----------------- Gulf War II Mar. 31, 2003 ----------------- Asia and Iraq...
...Issue Past Issues Can Bush be Beat in 2004? May 19, 2003 ----------------- Inside The Matrix May 12, 2003 ----------------- China: SARS Nation May 5, 2003 ----------------- Asian Heroes Apr. 28, 2003 ----------------- Fall of Saddam Apr. 21, 2003 ----------------- Saddam's Last Stand Apr. 14, 2003 ----------------- The SARS Scare Apr. 7, 2003 ----------------- Gulf War II Mar. 31, 2003 ----------------- Asia and Iraq...