When Times Are Tough: 'Mommy!'

Three catastrophic hurricanes slam the United States. Death tolls climb in Iraq. Gas prices skyrocket. The stock market slumps. Inflation picks up. Bird flu wings westward.

It's enough to send a man reaching for Playboy magazine to conduct some, ahem, research.

That's the case, anyway, with Terry F. Pettijohn II. A social psychologist at Mercyhurst College, in Pennsylvania, Mr. Pettijohn has made an academic career of testing what he calls the environmental-security

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