Anxiety

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b that can only be quelled by massive police deployments, or by the militarization of society itself - as we’ve already seen in the US, and to a lesser extent, in Great Britain.

What happened, then, in the poorest districts of the French suburbs, from October 27 to November 17, 2005 ?

The events began with the death of two teenagers, Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna, who ran in fear from a squadron of police on their way back to Clichy-sous-Bois, in the northeast of Paris.

They were returning home from a soccer match and they didn’t have their papers on them.

Along with a third boy they scaled a fence and hid in a dangerous transformer for a period of around thirty minutes, until both were electrocuted.

Local youth, convinced that the boys had been pursued to their deaths, began to riot in Clichy that night, following a pattern which has become typical in France, after every killing of immigrant children at the hands of the police.

As you probably know, disturbances in the housing projects, or "cites," are anything but rare in France these days.

In the course of the year 2004, approximately 20,000 cars were burned ; in the first nine months of 2005, that number had already reached 28,000.

That’s an average of a hundred a night.

The events of Clichy-sous-Bois would probably never have have made it beyond a byline in the local papers if the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, had not provoked outrage by calling the inhabitants of the suburbs "scum" on October...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b, printed images from paintings and advertising to school books gave citizens a sense of stability about their society," Perry writes in an introduction to the exhibition.

Without the benefit of mass communication — no TVs or radios back then — popular sentiment found expression through the artist's canvas, in early photographs and lithographs such as those by Currier and Ives.

Common images of children displayed in "American ABC" explore themes such as the country boy, the ragamuffin, children of bondage, the papoose and what Perry describes as "daughters of liberty" and "the new scholar." "The whole idea of images of children, you're suckered in by big eyes and tousled hair," says Perry, curator of American art for the Cantor Arts Center.

"You probably think that there's nothing going on behind the curtain." On the contrary, she says, artists used their chosen medium as a tool to lecture and spread propaganda.

Sometimes the message challenged the status quo, but more often it reinforced it.

In the section of the show devoted to the country boy, for instance, Perry points out that paintings of independent, empowered and outdoorsy youths symbolized what was perceived as the national character.

Scenes of healthy country boys working on farms or at play embodied the well-being of American democracy.

Viewers find an example of this idealized young American in John George Brown's 1875 painting, "The Berry Boy." The lone, smiling boy in suspenders and rolled-...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b.

"It's actually a very good therapy," said Professor de Quervain, "but in many patients the fear comes back in one or two months." The researchers suggest that using cortisol therapy in conjunction with behaviour modification therapy could help people confront their phobias.

The findings of the study appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

» Print this article » Email this article (new) Related Articles - 3 Secrets to Reduce Stress In the Home Buying Process - Blood pressure drug can block unpleasant memories: Study - Google turns focus on enterprise hosted e-mail service - Aspirin can cause more harm than good in elderly: Study - Autopsy clears Terri Schiavo questions Have your Say Name Email Subject Your Comment Enter Verification code More Health News click here Current News Stress hormone cortisol may help people confront spider phobia Test of fire as immigration bill is placed before Senate Nicole Kidman to play a spy in thriller penned by Simon Kinberg Google employees' wireless patent applications could be a pointer towards the fu...