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...season for most of the nation's amusement parks. But the aftereffects of summers of ever scarier thrill rides are still being felt as a number of lawsuits over injuries and deaths in accidents work their way through the courts. One case may result in a major tightening of safety standards. The California Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether an amusement-park ride should be classified as a "common carrier" rather than as entertainment. If the court upholds a lower appellate decision, such California parks as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm will fall into the same category...
...print of this 1974 hijacking thriller couldn’t have come out at a better time. After last summer’s New York blackout, being trapped in a subway seemed scarier than ever. Director Joseph Sargent’s taut suspense yarn plays on these fears—four criminals take over a subway train and demand one million dollars in ransom, as detective Walter Matthau rushes to save the day. Unfortunately, he’s only got an hour—after that, the passengers start dying. The color-coded hijackers—Mr. Blue, Mr. Green...
...Arroyo told a business group last week. According to Senator Rodolfo Biazon, vice chairman of the Senate committee on defense and a former military Chief of Staff, more military men could be tempted to challenge the government. "If not addressed at once," he warns, "we can expect a bigger, scarier attempt in the not-too-distant future...
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: Mad-Eye Moody--scarred, wooden legged and generally scary looking. But his secret identity is even scarier...
...risk that kills in a particularly awful way, like shark attacks, is scarier than one which kills in a less dreadful way. Fear of cancer and the hazards that cause cancer—radiation, industrial chemicals and so on—is informed by dread rather than rationality. And yet heart disease, which evokes less fear in many people, kills roughly 25 percent more Americans each year than does cancer...