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...also help to consider what you will do if you do lose everything. Literally, what will you do first, second and third? Contemplating action can shrink the threat to life size and introduce new possibilities. "We become very attached to our mentally constructed future," says Forsyth. "The harder you hold on to your story about your future, the harder this will...
After Fava jumped into the Schuylkill River in 1929, his brain finally had a threat it knew how to handle. He held fast to the piling until he was rescued by a river police boat. The police delivered Fava to the Presbyterian Hospital, where he was revived...
...Catalano downplayed fears of an extraordinary crime wave. “There is no crime wave here,” Catalano said, adding that students have become more aware and fearful because of HUPD’s advisories, which are mandated by federal law when there is a continuing threat to public safety. “It is our duty to tell people what’s happening,” Riley said. “We try to walk the fine line between vigilance and fear.” Catalano stressed that while HUPD is “very...
...Afghanistan has been accepted as inevitable. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military officer in Afghanistan, has said, "We're not going to win this war." At best, he says, international troops can hope to reduce it "to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat." U.K. ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, in a leaked diplomatic briefing with the French deputy ambassador, is said to have described the current situation in Afghanistan as "bad; the security situation is getting worse - so is corruption - and the government [of President Hamid Karzai] has lost all trust." The American...
...More recently, Haider was seeking to re-invent Austria's far right. In campaigning for this year's national parliamentary elections, he steered clear of Nazi references, focusing instead on the alleged threat posed by immigration, a potent political issue in Austria. His greatest political success came in 1999, when he led the Freedom Party to 27% of the vote, a result that triggered outrage in Europe and, ultimately, sanctions from the European Union when the party was invited to join the government. Haider never held national office himself, preferring instead to work behind the scenes from his post...