Fear

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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.
I'm not afraid of writing, but I am afraid of publishing
Some nameless fear stands between me and my desire to be heard.
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?
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.
Blue Glow
Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Sept. 21, 2000
Paranoid city
Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
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