Playing on Americaâs fears
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WASHINGTON - A menacing message from terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has added fresh kindling to the sense of fear and anxiety that has pervaded American life since the attacks of September 11, 2001 and set the tone of the presidential election
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Memories of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 are burned deeply into the nation's consciousness, and Americans today are as fearful of becoming a victim of terrorism as they are of losing their job or having their home burglarized.
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Terrorists lying in wait to attack. Planes falling from the sky. Ships blowing up. The candidates in the race for president are painting some scary scenarios to motivate voters.
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A few hours ago, Army Staff Sgt. Martin Iturralde was in southern Iraq, where fear was his constant companion, the best defense against bullets and mortars. Now he&#039;s in a park where a rock band is playing, children run and laugh &amp;#151; and his greatest worry is that the United States will lose to Italy in the World Cup.
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After two wars, thousands of deaths and many billions of dollars, the United States is still vulnerable to terrorists. That painful reality has ignited a political frenzy over who's to blame and who's best qualified to protect Americans.
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It's funny how many times over the past three years that "terrorist" threats have popped up whenever the Bush administration either wants something or is trying to distract people from its problems.
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At a time when the country is faced with a new tangle of problems, the return of the â80s action hero suggests that some Americans, particularly men, are looking to revel in the vestigial pleasures of older times and seemingly simpler ways.
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For once, when the US Open kicks off in New York tomorrow it won&#39;t be the biggest show in town. The Republican convention, with its threatened attendant demonstrations
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Take advantage of fear, even when it's your own.
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New urban architecture applies its art to self-defense, in the face of fears of attack.
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From Boston to Athens to New York, fear of terror and traffic drives people away.
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Fred Thompson&#39;s new role as a  presidential candidate means separating fact from fiction for  those Americans accustomed to seeing him in dramatic TV and  movie roles.
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Scientists say they have located the parts of the brain that help us &#39;unlearn&#39; our fears. One of the main areas involved is the same as that used to learn fears in the first place, experiments by the New York University team showed.
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The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks -- similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend -- designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, U.S. intelligence and...
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There was a time the words âMade in Chinaâ immediately evoked âshoddy.â Lately, many Americans are thinking âdanger.â
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Being a little bit scared is good. Many Marines say it keeps them sharp during a war in which combat comes in spurts, separated by lengthy bouts of boredom.
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The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good.