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...thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually passes out and ends the chapter without firing a single round...
...thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually passes out and ends the chapter without firing a single round...
...time to pull the trigger on my life has finally arrived. I find myself deciding between working for five years for three letters (P, h, and D), or one year for (hopefully, but unlikely) six digits. I must say, after Summers’ installation, the cult of academia seems pretty cool, with all the robes and the pomp and the circumstance and the bagpipes. But scooting around on the Internet investigating graduate programs, I realized that much of science has become as stale as the moldy bread from the perennial junior-high microbiology experiment...
...close range weaponry—will be effective deterrents to terrorists after a few weeks at FBI training camp. Quite frankly, it scares me to think that on my next flight home to Los Angeles, an air marshal may be sitting next to me with his finger on a trigger. With that image in mind, it is downright terrifying to think of an inexperienced, armed pilot. We hire pilots to fly planes, not to guard them...
Fear of flying is often aggravated by catastrophe. Stress and anxiety are known to trigger phobias: many people develop an aversion to flying after an individual crisis, such as the death of a relative. And global events like the Gulf War in 1991-92 and last year's Concorde crash can elicit a mass response. Experts say the fallout from the hijackings and attacks on New York City and Washington is likely to exceed anything they've seen. Flyers have to cope with the recent deaths, fear of terrorism and a depressing world economy. "There's just so much grief...