Word: scared
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...Sure, Finland gave Canada a scare in their semifinal, leading 3-2 before Team Canada woke up and answered with four goals to win. But it will still take "a couple more years of development and improving" before the Finns can threaten for gold, said Canadian star forward Hayley Wickenheiser. Her head coach, Daniele Sauvageau, was diplomatic about the opposition and said women's hockey was going "in the right direction...
Warnings won't scare off the folks in Hollywood. "I live in a town completely devoted to vanity," says writer-actress Carrie Fisher, 45, who has been Botoxing for five years. "It irons out the wrinkles. You'd never know I was manic-depressive." Danny Bonaduce, 42, a child actor (The Partridge Family) turned co-host of The Other Half, was accompanying his wife to a Botox session when her doctor asked him if he wanted some. "Three days after I did it, Dick Clark said to me, 'You look 10 years younger!' With Botox, people can't really tell...
...from the so-called axis, not surprisingly, was hostile. Iran's religious leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, joining Bush in a name-calling standoff, said it is the U.S. that is "evil." North Korea said the speech was "little short of declaring war." And Iraq said, "Such threats do not scare...
...BRITAIN Another Health Scare The government faced a public health crisis as an outbreak of measles in south London indicated that parents were not having their children inoculated with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. A controversial 1998 study linked the vaccine with autism, though more recent research disputes this. Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said that giving in to demands for a single measles jab, now in short supply, would be playing "Russian roulette" with children's health. Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to say whether his own son has had the combined inoculation...
Fortunately there were no casualties to the anthrax scare that struck the nation’s mailrooms four months ago—though workers wore gloves for two months...