Word: alarmable
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...passport on Yang Hua's desk is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002. He's logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar, as well as to the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. But Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. They're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels such as "Saudi sweet." As senior vice president...
...Officers were sent to the Perkins Hall parking lot on Oxford Street on a report of a car alarm that had gone off sporadically for a week. The officers were unable to locate the owner, and left a message on the vehicle and by phone. Officers left numerous notes and messages for a week. The vehicle was subsequently towed as a public nuisance...
...they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur in temporal and spatial proximity, linking up in a mathematically defined chain. Only when a chain is preceded by longer-term precursory patterns does the group issue an earthquake alarm. But it will take a long, sustained effort, Keilis-Borok concedes, before he or anyone else can claim to have cracked the puzzle. --By J. Madeleine Nash
...least a few students from the area, the reawakening of a volcano that has been dormant for their entire lives was not a cause for alarm...
...down Alaska's coast, alarm is spreading that the natural bounty on which the culture is built is at risk. At Point Hope, a bowhead-whaling village that dates from 600 B.C., flooding seawater threatens the airport runway and a seven-mile evacuation road. "During storms, people begin to panic," says town official Rex Rock. In the Pribilof Islands, villagers blame global warming along with industrial contaminants for the decline of 20 species, ranging from kelp to sea lion. In Barrow, capital of the oil-rich North Slope Borough, sandbags and dredging haven't protected $500 million in infrastructure...