As renowned Japanese columnist Yoichi Funabashi put it this week, "Instead of viewing Japan as a haven of immunity from danger and inconvenience, many around the world now perceive the country as fraught with peril and discomfort".
There is also the sense that something positive may be emerging from the perceived peril.
The brief The Mortal Danger (1980), translated from an essay Solzhenitsyn wrote for the journal Foreign Affairs, analyzes what he perceived to be the perils of American misconceptions about Russia.
Teachers and trade groups around the country are working to build e-mail lists, lobby lawmakers and educate the public about the perceived perils of intelligent design.
LILY GROSSBARD New York Keller's lament regarding the perceived perils brought by technology miscalculates the historical impact such advances have had on humans since time immemorial.
Dr. Russell Portenoy, chairman of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel, said the policy reflected the perceived perils of too much specificity.
Until now, mountaineers drawn by the challenge of climbing some of the world's most spectacular yet forbidding peaks were considered one of the few groups that remained impervious to the perceived perils of visiting Pakistan.
By 2021, they will be urging policymakers, parents and fellow citizens to act against the perceived perils of computers, which were built to aid and amuse us but which ended up corrupting the software of the brain itself.
While the meetings business tried to find new traction in a soured economy, one strong undercurrent this year has been a shift away from foreign destinations in favor of American resorts that are deemed more removed from the threat of terrorist attacks, SARS and other perceived overseas perils.
But the Department of Defense, which was now his group's main source of funding, was concerned, above all, with perceived peril.
But war is now back in fashion as "smart" technologies have reduced (perceived) domestic perils, states have splintered and "enemies" have proliferated and diffused.
