Word: strangerness
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...spare. Fear's main idea is that our intuition of danger is a "brilliant internal guardian" that can be honed to a fine point. But there is also practical advice on a variety of crimes on Levin's list, and some that might as well be: assault by a stranger, stalking, rampages by co-employees and demon baby sitters. (A truly spectacular serial-killer case seems thrown in for seasoning.) Some of the counsel is self-evident: Beware of strange men offering unwanted favors or fake solidarity. Learn to say, "I said NO!" But a four-part test for assessing...
...remarkable that the United Steelworkers has shut down Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. for the past nine months. The U.S.W. is no stranger to picket lines. What is really remarkable is that this longest Big Steel walkout since World War II has gone unnoticed by both the nation and the marketplace...
Launching a carrier into this turbulence isn't much more difficult than flying a kite in a hurricane. Yet Martin Shugrue, no stranger to troubled airlines, insists that Pan American World Airways, a new carrier with an old name, can compete as a low-cost, full-service discount carrier. "We'll make money with a high-quality product at an affordable cost," Shugrue says. Pan Am's promise is cheaper fares without the cramped seats and the bag of peanuts masquerading as in-flight service. Says he: "It's not rocket science...
...drift around China searching for work. So the city has permitted a handful of carefully controlled labor markets to help employ a few thousand of the laid off. At a grubby park in Tiexi, the city lets job seekers "advertise" their skills for a few cents. At a stranger's approach, they point eagerly at hand-lettered signs identifying them as would-be cooks, maids, nannies, hotel clerks, laborers. But at least half a dozen armed police immediately materialize, discouraging interviews...
...majority of Shenyang's legion of disgruntled workers are invisible, but they pose the most serious threat to China's political stability. The city labors under omnipresent police, armed cops patrolling the streets of the industrial zone, gun-toting guards standing sentry in factory doorways, plainclothesmen nosing into every stranger's business. At any sign of citizen anger, party officials respond quickly to keep the city quiet, fixing water mains or repairing broken heaters. The city's new technocratic mayor has permitted small, regular, controlled demonstrations at city hall to let citizens vent their spleen about unpaid pensions and missing...