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  • For example, trance supposedly explains both fear-based, cataleptic, frozen rigidity and delight-based, ecstatic, frenzied mobility.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Classifying someone who smokes marijuana as a criminal, or labeling an addicted person as a villain, not only exacerbates the problem, but also promotes fear-based stigma and discrimination.

    Gretchen Burns Bergman: Restoration Not Retribution Gretchen Burns Bergman 2010

  • Although the President alluded to Race to the Top being the answer to the problems in NCLB, Race to the Top, at least in is first pass is a score driven, test driven reward system informed by the same weakness and fear-based paradigm as A Nation at Risk.

    Jenifer Fox: Race, Race, Race. Win, Win, Win Jenifer Fox 2011

  • Although the President alluded to Race to the Top being the answer to the problems in NCLB, Race to the Top, at least in is first pass is a score driven, test driven reward system informed by the same weakness and fear-based paradigm as A Nation at Risk.

    Jenifer Fox: Race, Race, Race. Win, Win, Win Jenifer Fox 2011

  • On a physiological level, Ms. Bradley says, such a seismic change can trigger a "stress reaction" that leads to "survival or fear-based thinking."

    Easy Money's Hard Lessons Ben Levisohn 2011

  • Arianna Huffington's Third World America demonstrates why, in the midst of fear-based criticism of immigration policy, we still need the objectivity and insights of immigrants like Arianna, who came to us from Greece by way of the UK.

    Jonathan Bernstein: Third World America -- How to Prevent our Crisis From Becoming a Disaster Jonathan Bernstein 2010

  • When we understand the same thing goes for America -- there is nowhere in the world a threat to our country, we have nothing anyone wants to steal -- then fear-based 'rightwing' xenophobic paranoia is dispelled and 'cured.'

    How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Classifying someone who smokes marijuana as a criminal, or labeling an addicted person as a villain, not only exacerbates the problem, but also promotes fear-based stigma and discrimination.

    Gretchen Burns Bergman: Restoration Not Retribution Gretchen Burns Bergman 2010

  • It looks similar to the fear-based promos for Virus Remover 2009, SpywareGuard 2008, XP AntiVirus and other worthless security products, triggering fake scans showing your PC to be riddled with viruses.

    New twist on scareware locks up your PC x00a0; Byron Acohido 2009

  • These guys were basically outliers almost 6 standard deviations away from the mean; after marinating in America's fear-based culture, ones intuition about such things tends to skew towards assuming that terroristically violent people would be FAR more common.

    How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine - Boing Boing 2009

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