The nature of terror
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Those two French journalists are still missing in Iraq, where they're being held by still another band of terrorists.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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By Lisa Anderson  NEW YORK - In a world so riven by religious, political and economic differences, it is striking how much we all have in common when it comes to the fabulous creatures that inhabit our dreams and our nightmares.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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Once again, the Department of Homeland Security has combined tragedy and farce in an exhibition of the police-state implications of the so-called âwar on terrorism.
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Take advantage of fear, even when it's your own.
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NEW YORK, July 19 -- On most days  in this city, the line that separates the Whens from  the Ifs -- those who think another act of terrorism here is a certitude, and those who do not -- is pretty hard to spot. After nearly six incident-free years, New Yorkers tend to choose a side on the fear div...
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Sept. 20, 2004 -- Terrorism&#39;s lethal ripple effects can last beyond an attack&#39;s immediate devastation. In Israel, fatal car wrecks jump by 35% three days after a terror attack, according to a new study.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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In the three years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the political meaning of the âwar on terrorâ has become increasingly clear.
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John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. âKlimtâ adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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Fighting fires and facing incoming spittle, stabbings and Molotov cocktails: Is it all part of the job?.
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Don DeLillo: It's uncanny now to look back at the dust jacket for Don DeLillo's novel, "Underworld," written four years before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The Twin Towers rise up into the mist, with a church silhouetted in the foreground. A bird, now looking unmistakably like an airplane, seems to target the tower on the right.
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A group of mathematicians look at how order theory might help in the war on terror. The branch of abstract math resembles classic military strategy but applying computers to problems might increase accuracy of predictions and strategic moves.
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THE rapid spread of fear that can cause crush injuries and serious accidents in crowds could be provoked by an innate reaction to body language, a provocative new study has found.