Scary Pictures

For Tuvalu, the effects are frightening.

Yet it was a fearsome undertaking.

The potential was alluring, but also terrifying.

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The prospect that weapons of mass destruction will once again be used is terrifying.

Some of them say he was a physics teacher that had a scaring experience during the Civil War.

If you want to hear a scary story, I'll tell you about a dream I had a few weeks ago.

After the Kursk catastrophe, Putin was asked what really happened. It sank, he replied, with a somewhat macabre smile.

The economic and social conditions in the least developed countries continue to deteriorate badly.

Yet the numbers are staggering each month, some 40,000 Iraqis flee their homes because of the war.

Another lullaby with scary lyrics and an enchanting melody is the Shimabara Lullaby, roughly translated by Hanako Tokita as

The things in politics were tremulous, too, were expecting better times than under Poland, but things did not turn for the better.

Indeed, the growing disconnect between increasingly aggressive policy actions and strains in the financial market is scary.

Of course, a world government could never have democratic legitimacy for this reason, it is a scary idea.

He said that Africa was faced with daunting development challenges, and was the only region in the developing world where extreme poverty prevailed.

The Monitoring Group has determined that arms flows continued at an alarming rate and in large quantities during the reporting period.

The headlines tell us that genes can give us scary diseases, maybe even shape our personality, or give us mental disorders.

If one feels this story is too painful or too scary, maybe he she is just not ready to read it.

In case the detainees did not comply with this threat, the Syrian regime forces will attack the prison in a military operation which is expected to produce a terrifying massacre against the detainees. .

All of the animals are gone, they're dead, and the chimneys are still there creating a really nice ghost town, an eerie, spooky ghost town, but essentially devoid of animals, of course.

And I love that moment in this video, because before it became a shared experience, it was something that was maybe a little bit scary, or something that was at least confusing to her.

For strength unalloyed by checks and balances and by a capacity for self critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action can be unnerving.

Somali waters now have a fearsome reputation and have been classified as some of the world's most dangerous by both the International Maritime Bureau and International Maritime Organization.

When they go out, they travel in these curious armored vehicles with these somewhat threatening security teams who ready 24 hours in advance who say you can only stay on the ground for an hour.

This is, obviously, that famous view now of the Arctic, which is likely to be gone at this point in the next three or four or five years. Very, very, very scary.

But that word also connotes the fearsome qualities of ruthlessness and brutality that any honest portrayal of the office of President of the United States must include in our day.

The use of the Nazi salute made clear that the gathering was not peaceful, and, given the Bootboys' record of violence, the commemorative march was frightening and the incitement to violence evident.

And I think that if that is true of virtual worlds, then these changes, though scary and, I say, inevitable are ultimately for the better, and therefore something that we should ride out.

It's always sort of struck me as really a scary thought that if you see a dog in a park, and the owner is calling it, and the owner says, you know, Puppy, come here, come here, and the dog thinks, Hmm, interesting.

And these dynamics are a little scary sometimes, because you think, you know, other people can be using forces that will manipulate how I interact what I do, where I do it, when I do it.

This task can seem daunting, and it is easy to descend into generalities or stray into areas of such deep disagreement that differences are reinforced not overcome.

The country that used to be the symbol of capitalist stability and strength now shows frightening similarities to the developing countries that suffered from the world debt crisis in the early 1980 s.

Consider the frightening, absurd fact that the research relied on to advance the cause of carbon cuts uses economic models that simply assume that technological breakthroughs will happen by themselves.

Indeed, this indicator paints a somewhat less alarming picture than that created by the headline youth unemployment rate of more than 50 in Spain, or even the 62.5 rate recently reached in Greece.

Existing data on AIDS reveal that women are becoming increasingly vulnerable due, not only to a major biological vulnerability to infections, but also to their subordinate position in sexual relations.

The drip irrigation system had to be small enough that a farmer only had to risk a quarter acre, even if he had two, because it was too frightening, given all that he had at stake.

But, in a regime like Vladimir Putin s, where the government decides who may be a candidate, the webcams would be farcical were they not also so intimidating.

Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.

The killing of Politkovskaya has incited an eerie sense ofdéjà vu just as in the KGB s heyday, people simply disappear in Putin s Russia.

He writes It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional economy.

In his latest video, he shows us how he crosses busy streets in one case, there's an audible signal that lets him know when it is safe to cross, and in the other case, he has to figure out traffic patterns through sound, and then attempt to cross in what he describes as a scary experience

It comes not merely from criminal terrorists it comes from many aspects of globalization, from international crime, from new technology, from social and cultural disruption, from a rapidly degrading environment and from the grave threats posed by the possible spread of fearful new diseases.

Even so, East Central Europeans, who are still recovering from the terrible political calamities caused by Europe s historical demons, find the intensity of their Western counterparts national egoism a bit frightening.

That will have a chilling result as long as a military dominated Pakistan continues, willingly or helplessly, to harbour the perpetrators of Islamist terror, what happened in Mumbai could happen again anywhere.