Word: alarmable
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...system and for the folly of exposing other people to it. But while Speaker may have been reckless, the blame for the emergence of drug-resistant bugs like the one he is incubating falls partly on the rest of us. For years public-health officials have been raising the alarm about how our overreliance on antibiotics is breeding a generation of superbugs, increasingly resistant to the medicines designed to kill them. The problem has only gotten worse as antibiotic use has expanded to agriculture, where cattle, chicken and fish are routinely treated with the drugs to keep infectious diseases...
...those responsible for students’ education here—its failure to include professors was a glaring omission and one we hope the Faculty corrects next year.This year also saw the release of a landmark report by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development that sounded the alarm on the sorry state of pedagogy at Harvard. Just as importantly, the report identified the problem as stemming from Harvard’s institutional priorities and culture and recommended 18 concrete changes to begin to fix the problem. Three of these changes—monetary incentives for top-notch teaching...
...your alarm clock is going off. Now what...
...Half the day is gone! I am so bad at life! b) I can’t study on an empty stomach. Go to the dining hall and shmooze ‘til lunch (ends). c) I sing along to my alarm, just to confirm I still have a voice. d) Bedtime...
...Gore often compares the climate crisis to the gathering storm of fascism in the 1930s, and he quotes Winston Churchill's warning that "the era of procrastination" is giving way to "a period of consequences." To his followers, Gore is Churchill-the leader who sounds the alarm. And if no declared candidate steps up to lead on this issue, many of them believe he will have a "moral obligation"-you hear the phrase over and over-to jump in. "I understand that position and I respect it, but I'm not convinced things will evolve that way," says Gore...