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...suddenly, a skittish country of post-traumatic stress, shaken from what so recently seemed an unshakable bravura. Postings culled from websites (including this one) and newspapers? letters to the editor show a populace ready to spring into some yet to be determined course of action. What form that action takes has already become a potent point of debate. We want revenge, but we are torn by the idea of war - each "bomb the suckers back to the stone ages" email follows hard on the heels of melodramatic pleas to "let there be peace on earth...
...easy to fathom. "He wants to destroy the things people hate the most," says Heizo Takenaka, an economics professor who last spring joined the Cabinet. At the top of that list: the crusty political barons and their backroom deals, the endless paving of highways that go nowhere, schools that stress conformity over creativity. Yet in any time but the present, Koizumi would never have been trusted. He has a reputation as a lone wolf, a bit of an eccentric. In the past, that would have doomed him in a nation where mavericks traditionally have been mistrusted...
...Today, claiming it wants to end King's 19-year reign while he is still at the top of his game, has canceled his column, which will make its last appearance on Sept. 24. Perhaps if he hadn't done his TV show and had just stuck with his stress-free column job, King would have been appreciated more for his print work. He'd also probably still be on wife No. 1 and heart No. 1. Instead, I am left here to mourn King not only as a reader--how am I going to find out if Steve Martini...
...STRESSED OUT Anxiety during pregnancy can double the risk of having a hyperactive child, possibly owing to exposure to the stress hormone cortisol, say researchers at London's Imperial College. Children's behavior is usually attributed to genes or parenting, the researchers say, but this study suggests there is a chemical component as well...
...Laden himself issued a statement broadcast by Qatar’s Al-Jazeera satellite channel. “I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation,” said the statement...