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...citizens blame their leaders for military failure. But this isn't just politics as usual. The war in Lebanon has induced a new sense of national vulnerability, heightening Israelis' anxiety about the dangerous neighborhood they live in. In the past, Israelis believed that their military was mighty enough to scare away Arab attackers. No longer. During the war, as many as a million Israelis were forced to flee the north or hide in bomb shelters from Hizballah's rockets. Not since Israel's war of independence in 1947 had so many civilians been put at risk. Says Galia Golan...
...COMPLETE WONKS What Katrina anniversary? What terror scare? The only story Washington can't take its eyes off: alleged JonBenet killer John Mark Karr. Freaky...
...aware that not all stereotypes about teenage boys are wrong: they scare easily; they're reluctant to talk about their emotions, and when they do, they're not particularly good at it. So when Giordano and her colleagues decided to undertake a large-scale study of the secret love life of teenagers, they approached their subjects the way you would treat warriors of the Yanomamo: with scientific objectivity and extreme caution...
...years ago a British Airways flight got a dual F-16 escort back to Schiphol after a bomb scare. That turned out to be a false alarm, but after the events of the last two weeks, no one is disposed to take any chances on airplanes...
...that seem to be preoccupying the media savants as they contemplate this harmless little movie: how effective has the Internet campaign for the film been, and what may it bode for the marketing of movies in the future? I suspect that Snakes will probably perform pretty much as most scare movies do - a big opening weekend followed by an alarming fall-off in its second and third weeks. I had a pretty good, regressive time at it - I've always kind of liked movies about airplanes that get the wobbles somewhere in mid-flight - but I don't really think...