And the owners of four of the most vulnerable bungalows fear their homes may be claimed by the forces of nature before that choice becomes an issue.

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The infestation is gathering pace: foresters fear that by 2013 four-fifths of British Columbia's central-southern pine forest will be gone.

ECONOMIST: Pining for a cold winter

In August, 1969, a Memphis man known as Sweet Willie Wine led a group of black men on a four-day March Against Fear, from West Memphis to Little Rock, passing through the small towns of the Arkansas delta.

NEWYORKER: Southern Discomfort

There was a glimmer of hope this week with the return of reality show "Fear Factor, " but NBC's decline is still the biggest of the four most-watched TV networks in the U.S., among which NBC has long ranked No. 4.

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Police fear there may be more victims of a rapist convicted of attacking four women.

BBC: 'Predatory' ex-TA captain rapist convicted

Joey Reed, a mother of four nicknamed "Hot Mama, " showed no fear on the water.

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Elderly men and women would ask me how to cope with fear of dying, asking me even though at the ripe old age of twenty-four I had not ever experienced that feeling.

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So the number four represents something a person is afraid of because it symbolically connects with whatever they fear most in their life.

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Four, this independent autonomy would attract new scholars to teach or to conduct research without fear of government interference.

FORBES: The University of Texas and Texas A&M Should Privatize

They often fear that by doing so, they will help to elect the candidate that they like least out of the three or four on the ballot.

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