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...ophthalmologist and his sister sprinkled flour in a Connecticut Ikea parking lot. An ensuing bioterrorism scare forced hundreds to evacuate. The two now face felony charges...
Past failures don't scare Americans. They believe in location, and in golf, Scotland is it. You can understand why on late-summer evenings in St. Andrews. Often a white sheet of mist, known locally as haar, spreads over the Old Course from the North Sea, as if the spirits of the world's great golfers were tucking their cherished course into bed. Through the mist, golfers place white balls on tees as though lighting sacramental candles. Or is that Americans praying for a fat return on their grand investments...
...described as "a small number" of possible outbreaks elsewhere. Farmers and tourist chiefs pray these tests will prove negative, but are already set to suffer. A ban on exports of livestock is in place and the European Union and individual countries will introduce further restrictions on British imports. Meanwhile scare stories about FMD are beginning to circulate. The disease very rarely affects humans, but despite such assurances in 2001, many visitors canceled or curtailed trips to Britain...
That made sense to me. As I watched the boys at Falling Creek do things that would scare me to death if my own son were doing them--hammering white-hot pieces of metal, clinging to a zip line two stories above a lake, examining native rattlesnakes--I didn't notice many whining boys. Yates Pharr, director of Falling Creek, seemed to read my mind. "It's the parents who have the anxieties nowadays, far more than the boys," he said. "We've started posting photographs of each day's activity on our website, and still I'll get complaints...
...talks in the backs of diners - is designed to get money from customers. The conventional lie is that marketing informs. Maybe it does, peripherally. It's really done to persuade. But is it fine to persuade patients, so you can squeeze more money from them? Is it fine to scare patients into tests and iffy treatments, to persuade people who aren't sick - who are not patients - that they need treatment anyway? It is far from fine to treat patients like customers...