With varying degrees of dread, Iraq's neighbors are coming to grips with a new Middle East that is dominated as never before by the United States.
In the wake of reports of a 700percentt rise since May in scooter injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms across the country, scooters have now joined Pokemon cards, Tamagotchi virtual pets and even Harry Potter in the ranks of recent kid obsessions that have inspired varying degrees of dread.
Slovic argues that three things stand in the way of a logical, analytical risk assessment of new technologies: our level of dread, our degree of familiarity (or lack thereof), and the number of people we believe the technology will affect.
Since the discovery after new year celebrations of a drowned man, "naked, his head turned almost 180 degrees, a look of dread in his eyes", the village has felt itself "under judgment".
Since the discovery after new year celebrations of a drowned man, "naked, his head turned almost 180 degrees, a look of dread in his eyes", the village has felt itself "under judgment".
The attacks have also afflicted countless cities with a need for hyper-vigilance and a sense of dread, to the degree where, in our daily lives, we conflate "dirty bomb" with "rush hour" and "midtown".
The gym is little more than a cage for the frustrated young athletes and their adult supervisors, all of them struggling to one degree or another with the sense of dread implanted by the sniper.
MAYA RUDOLPH, a star of "Bridesmaids," opening May 13 Speed (1994) FOR people over a certain age (16) the phrase "summer movie" summons a mouth-drying dread, a degree of despair that is only exceeded by the phrase "summer movie season" -- an endless desert of the bloated and the moronic.
It's this class of language that talks about things that we ordinarily can't talk about without a degree of embarrassment or shame or dread.
