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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (14467)	3/1/2003 8:27:13 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Something to Fear: Fear Itself March 1, 2003 The long run-up to a possible war in Iraq is exacting a heavy toll on psyches and economies from Orlando to Shanghai to Jerusalem. By Shawn Hubler, Times Staff Writer Because of the war that may happen tomorrow -- or in two weeks or six weeks or, then again, not at all -- Joan McCullers has spent months deciding whether to fly from Virginia to Reno to see her sister. Richard Heckmann has put expansion of his Los Angeles-based sporting goods business on the back burner. Gail Devers, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, has warned that she may not travel from Atlanta to England for this month's world indoor track championships. Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo has canceled the free trips it was offering as a PlayStation 2 prize promotion. Hiring has been frozen at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. NBC has delayed production on "Around the World in 80 Dates," a global "reality" series, and 20th Century Fox has postponed its new "Mad Max" sequel, which was to have been shot in Namibia, until autumn. In Hong Kong, an elementary school with a big American enrollment has called off the fifth-grade class trip to mainland China. In Tehran, Farnoosh Salehi is giving his daughter gold coins rather than an apartment as her wedding present, on the hunch that as violence rises in the vicinity of his country, the price of real estate will dramatically fall. In actions large and little, local and global, the world's bystanders are bracing for an imminent invasion of Iraq. Long months of debate and deadlines -- an extraordinary public run-up to possible armed conflict -- have put on hold lives and livelihoods worldwide in ways that are turning out to be as demoralizing in some respects as war itself. more at latimes.com