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And two-thirds of those surveyed in 2003 in countries from Indonesia to Turkey (a NATO ally) were very or somewhat fearful that the United States may attack them.
Discussing Harrison's harrowing encounters with uncomprehending doctors--such as the physician who broke Harrison's hymen in front of her mother--Hodo concludes that "there is not much help for a troubled young woman with a fearful secret if a medical system fails to be personal, complex, creative, [and] sophisticated."
Checking myself out in the dressing-room mirror, I realized that in these pants, I would never again be fearful of that other nightmare of bourgeois life, the moment in which you sense that your middle-class prosperity, your high-tech skills, your credit cards, and the advertising industry all give you license to slough off your work ethic, relax your discipline, and lower your guard.
In other words, it would be a mistake to dismiss all U.S. investors' worries about the impact of the Hong Kong sell-off on U.S. companies as the fearful bleatings of people who, having read too many silly headlines about globalization, suddenly decided--since everyone else seemed to have decided, too--that the sky was falling.
Their stories range from a mirthful account by a Bristol woman about her shiftless next-door neighbor whose overflowing drain gutters flooded her property, to a somber story by a man from South Wales whose son's leg was amputated in a fearful childhood accident.