Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice president for academic affairs at Columbia University, Oriental Scholar Theodore deBary (not a member of U.C.R.A.), raised the alarm as keynote speaker at the New York conference. "In the calm that has mysteriously come over our campuses," he said, "it may seem melodramatic still to speak of the 'university crisis.' " But, he added, a "creeping crisis from the neglect and erosion of general education" is getting worse. According to deBary, part of the trouble is that a shift in emphasis toward more and earlier career training has resulted in liberal education's coming out second best...
...city. At 5:10 in the morning, a storm of fire began: red tracers flashed past the windows of the town hall, and a few mortar rounds landed in the compound. The soldier in the next cot jumped up: "Time to get up," he said. "It's their alarm clock. It happens every morning. After two hours they take a break and then give it another go later." Indeed the firing stopped by 7 o'clock. Walking along the streets of the city, I heard a babble of everyday sounds: cocks crowing, babies crying, people chattering...
Barnard suggests the reason for the firemen's rapid heart rates: the fire-alarm bell. Among firemen monitored for 24 hours, most of the younger men, with supposedly healthy hearts, showed great excitement and doubled heart rates when the alarm sounded. But oldtimers were not immune to the excitement syndrome either. At least 20% overreacted to the bell, their bodies releasing hormones that might contribute to heart disease. Barnard's recommendation: a fitness program for all fire fighters...
...persistent expectation in urban school systems. In Los Angeles, where 66,000 broken windows, arson, and other vandalism cost the school system $2.5 million last year, five German shepherds have been added to the nighttime security patrol. New York City will spend some $5,000,000 this year for alarm systems, closed circuit television and other devices to improve security in its schools...
...little steering rockets on the Apollo command and service modules (CSM) that had carried the second Skylab crew to their orbital home on July 28 and is needed to ferry them back to earth. About fifteen minutes later, the astronauts themselves became aware of the problem when an alarm went off aboard the space station, jolting them out of their sleep. Later, as they looked out of the window, they saw sparkling particles streaming by the orbital workshop. Said Skylab Commander Alan Bean with the coolness of a lunar-landing veteran: "We thought that was unusual...