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45 Nathan and Snedeker, Satan’s Silence (quote from p. 240). See also David Bromley, “Satanism: The New Cult Scare,” in James Richardson et al., eds., The Satanism Scare (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), pp. 49-71.

46 Of girls ages fifteen to seventeen who gave birth, fewer than one in ten were unmarried and had been made pregnant by men at least five years older. See Steven Holmes, “It’s Awful, It’s Terrible, It’s ... Never Mind,” New York Times, 6 July 1997, p. E3.

47 CNN, “Crossfire,” 27 August 1995 (contains Huffington quote); Ruth Conniff, “Warning: Feminism Is Hazardous to Your Health,” Progressive, April 1997, pp. 33-36 (contains Sommers quote). See also Susan Faludi, Backlash (New York: Crown, 1991); Deborah Rhode, “Media Images, Feminist Issues,” Signs 20 (1995): 685-710; Paula Span, “Did Feminists Forget the Most Crucial Issues?” Los Angeles Times, 28 November 1996, p. E8.

48 See Katha Pollitt, “Subject to Debate,” Nation, 26 December 1994, p. 788, and idem, 20 November 1995, p. 600.

49 Henry Nelson Coleridge, ed., Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: J. Murray, 1935), entry for 5 October 1830. Nixon quote cited in William Safire, Before the Fall (New York: Doubleday, 1975), Prologue.

Chapter One

1 Hitchcock quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Film Companion (New York: HarperCollins, 1995). ABC, “20/20,” 5 July 1996.

2 “Oprah,” 5 September 1997; Jerry Adler et al., “Road Rage,” Newsweek, 2 June 1997. See also CBS, “This Morning,” 4 June 1998.

3 Andrew Ferguson, “Road Rage,” Time, 12 January 1997, pp. 64-68; Kim Murphy, “Driven to Extremes in the Northwest,” Los Angeles Times, 11 January 1998, pp. A1, 14; Maria Puente, “Students Get Lesson in ‘Road Rage’,” USA Today, 16 October 1997, p. A3; Murphy, “Driven to Extremes.”

4 Kathy Free, “Make Their Day,” People Weekly, 1 September 1997, pp. 59-60. Additional details on the AAA numbers: Jason Vest et al., “Road Rage,” U.S. News & World Report, 2 June 1997, pp. 24-30. Quote from Murphy, “Driven to Extremes.”

5 Patrick O’Driscoll, “In Hot Pursuit of Road Rage,” USA Today, 9 December 1997, p. A3. On the amount of coverage see also Jane Hall, “Newsmagazines Spread Across TV’s Table,” Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1997, p. F5.

6 David Levy, Tools of Critical Thinking (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1997), ch. 22.

7 Incident: KTLA “News at 10,” 14 January 1998; Solomon Moore and Scott Glover, “‘Road Rage’-type Crash Kills 2,” Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1998, pp. B 1, 5.

8 Robert Ourlain, “Freeway Chase Ends in Slaying,” Los Angeles Times, 19 January 1998, p. A1; Scott Glover and Geoff Boucher, “Corrections’ Officer’s Husband Gives Account of Slaying,” Los Angeles Times, 20 January 1998, pp. A3, 10; KTLA, “News at 10,” 27 January 1998; Scott Glover and Bonnie Hayes, “Slain Guard’s Spouse Decries Police Actions,” Los Angeles Times, 28 January 1998, p. B1.

9 ABC, “20/20,” 5 July 1996.

10 NPR, “Morning Edition,” 24 July 1997.

11 O‘Driscoll, “In Hot Pursuit of Road Rage.”

12 For an example of calls for more police see Tustin Amole, “Aurora Police Crack Down on Road Rage,” Rocky Mountain News, 27 January 1998 (Internet edition). General information on Nerenberg from O’Driscoll, “In Hot Pursuit of Road Rage,” his Web site, and Joe Sharkey, “You’re Not Bad, You’re Sick. It’s in the Book,” New York Times, 28 September 1997, pp. N1, 5. Quotes from Free, “Make Their Day”; ABC “World News Tonight,” 17 July 1997; Puente, “Students Get Lesson in ‘Road Rage”’; Adler et al., “Road Rage.”

13 Quote from Free, “Make Their Day.”

14 “Oprah,” 5 September 1997.

15 CNN, “CNN Today,” 28 August 1997; Vest et al., “Road Rage.”

16 Ralph Hingson, “Prevention of Drinking and Driving,” Alcohol Health and Research World 20 (1996): 219—26; Matthew Wald, “A Fading Drumbeat Against Drunken Driving,” New York Times, 15 December 1996, p. D5; Jay Winsten, “Promoting Designated Drivers,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 10 (May 1994): 11-14. On my selection and use of statistics