Thursday, June 22, 2006

Americans React to a Possible N Korean Missile Strike

Choice quotes:

"A better question is when's the next earthquake," Ernie De Matteis said as he flipped through a newspaper in San Francisco.
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For Sandy Brickner, a systems security officer in Seattle, worrying about bombs is somebody else's problem.

"That's what our government is supposed to do, not me," she said. "I have no control over it."
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Back in Honolulu, office manager Alohalani Hose couldn't be bothered with it all.

"Why worry about that when I got my life to worry about?" she said. "If you worry, it causes stress, anxiety and you deteriorate and die. So why worry?"
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Bruce Klein, executive director of the Nome Community Center, acknowledged his neighbors can be somewhat insulated - and that's not always a bad thing.

"If we were thinking about all this stuff and everything that's out there, and of course the situation with the missiles in North Korea, I think we would all be on Prozac."

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