Fear

My business trip ended with me in four-point restraints! My business trip ended with me in four-point restraints!

I drank some wine, took my pills, boarded the plane and woke up on a gurney!
  • Do I really want to go to law school?

    I've been working my whole life toward this moment ... and now I'm panicking!
  • Do we teach children to fear men?

    Lost kids are taught to avoid males, coaches are told to refrain from touching players and some advise hiring only female babysitters.
  • Fear factors

    Allen Shawn -- son of William, brother of Wallace -- is afraid of almost everything, but not of writing a memoir of his phobic life.
  • Ask the pilot

    Who, exactly, is responsible for terrorizing the American public over the past month? Was it the failed London cabal, or the U.S. government, with an eye toward elections?
  • I'm not afraid of writing, but I am afraid of publishing

    Some nameless fear stands between me and my desire to be heard.
  • Ask the pilot

    Why have the airlines, who have the most to lose, been silent as flying becomes an increasingly squalid and unpleasant experience?
  • Cliffhanging for beginners

    TV dramas whip up empty suspense
  • The death of Al Mutanabbi Street

    Iraqi culture was reborn when Saddam fell, only to die again. A report from Baghdad's fear-haunted literary cafes.
  • The threat to Bush

    The fear the president invoked to marshal support for the Iraq war is failing him in his war on the New Deal.
  • Letters

    The politics of war: Readers respond to "Missing in Action," by Tim Grieve, and "Be Very Afraid," by Mark Follman. Plus: Rice's "total inability" to accept responsibility.
  • Be very afraid

    President Bush has used the politics of fear to sell his policies and stifle opponents. With events turning against him, will that strategy backfire?
  • Streets of fear

    A Georgetown professor goes to Baghdad to assess post-war conditions and finds terror spreading by the day -- and the U.S. unable to stop it.
  • As human as you and I

    A proposed ban on reproductive cloning demonstrates our irrational fear of the unknown, not the vagaries of science.
  • When your kids are in the line of fire

    A parent in the path of a spree killer has little to offer beyond slim protection and lessons in real life.
  • Fear and fatherhood

    My son is sometimes afraid of me; I am more afraid of him. We both wrestle demons -- monsters for him, parental anxieties for me -- that cannot be vanquished.
  • Back in the saddle

    These days, because I am an airline pilot, people want to know if I'm scared. Of course I'm scared. I would be nervous flying with a pilot who wasn't.
  • What lies beneath

    It's been four months and New York looks normal, but it's not. Not for New Yorkers.
  • Drafted into the cult of war

    I am not obsessed with the battle; I am the battle.
  • Paranoid like me

    The country becomes afraid and my alienation begins to fade.
  • Can't get me

    Where you'll find me.
  • You've got hate mail

    First I expected it; now I'm scared.
  • Is it safe?

    When violence flares and travelers beware, who profits from the scare?
  • Boo!

    MTV's newest reality show, "Fear," terrifies with the most frightening thing on earth -- nothing at all.
  • The evil that spiders do

    We're hard-wired to despise these monsters for a reason. Now hand me that plunger.
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