Thank you so much. It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart.

Frighteningly, the Russians were likely correct.

Chillingly it seemed to get louder and louder, as if they were edging nearer and nearer.

The post modern realities of our grave present make a mockery of modernity.

And then the really scary thing about all of this the overfishing, the pollution and the climate change is that each thing doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Take Iraq, where the looming Shia crescent is often blamed for much of the chaos.

The eurozone s creeping fragmentation is primarily the result of the mutual dependence of banks and governments.

In the remaining three countries where polio has not yet been eliminated Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria there were just 223 reported cases in 2012. This makes me optimistic that I will live to celebrate the day when this dreaded disease is stamped out forever.

Historically, there tends to be the same set of themes fearsome, uncontrolled transformative change led by educated, urbanized cosmopolitans.

This is not terrifying or even particularly scary 30 centimeters is how much the sea rose over the last 150 years.

Gasoline costs are a tremendous drain on the American economy, but they're also a drain on individual families and it's kind of terrifying to think about what happens when prices get higher.

Now, I'm going to move now from this kind of the sublime in the traditional sense of the word, that is to say, awe inspiring, terrifying to the somewhat more mundane.

Frighteningly, the new Japanese government is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the country s two decade old property bust.

However frightening the global recession, a coordinated and coherent response to it by the world s political leaders remains highly uncertain at best.

WASHINGTON, DC Tax time in the United States the dreaded mid April deadline for filing annual income tax forms has come and gone.

It was so successful in evolution that from mouse to man it expanded about a thousandfold in terms of the numbers of neurons, to produce this almost frightening organ, structure.

Sensorily, we're taking in all sorts of things mixtures of things that are good, bad, exciting, frightening to come up with that sensorial exposure, that sensation of what's going on.

This scary fortress of a building in Nasr City district, with its high guarded fences, has witnessed the death, the violation, and the demise of human rights!

And that's terrifying, because the theoretical models that always work out in the answer key in the back of a teacher's edition, that's great, but it's scary to talk about sources of error when the theoretical does not match up with the practical.

It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to, but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed when we do.

For example, like much of the country, Gansu Province, at China s geographical center, is grappling with structural and social problems that range from the daunting to the apparently insuperable.

Last May, Obama declared that the US had turned the tide of war in Afghanistan, an eerie echo of Richard Nixon s rhetoric as he withdrew US forces from Vietnam.

Indeed, Putin and Medvedev have worked in perfect tandem with respect to Georgia, cooperating and skillfully performing their different roles, with Putin cast in the lead role of the menacing god of a Russian reckoning, and Medvedev in the supporting role of a possible humanitarian peacemaker.

We fully support furthering the practice of holding such meetings, as they are aimed at increasing the cohesiveness of the global response to the dreadful threat posed by international terrorism, while drawing upon the results of the important strides made at the regional and subregional levels in this fight.

UNICEF's report, The State of the World's Children, 2005 reports the startling figure that women aged 15 24 in sub Saharan Africa make up 75 per cent of the infected population.

Central bankers might argue that we have entered a state of permanent market crisis analogous to the never ending war on terror. But even this frightening analogy does not answer the question of whether central banks should assume positions of power in international relations.

Here's what I heard The voice of a man who hoped to be the good guy with the gun, being confronted with the fact that he might be the bad guy the fearful guy, the boy who protects himself against the dark, and is not protecting others from an imminent threat, as he may have imagined himself doing as a police officer.

Now there is an epidemic of obesity two thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids. What's really concerning to me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do. That's pitiful, and it's preventable.