Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring bloomed in our fair Saskatchewan community, I decided it was time for the school of which I am principal to have its first postwinter fire drill. I pulled the alarm, and the students quickly and quietly filed out. One student stopped me cold with a sincere question: "Did anyone go out to check to see if there was somebody with a gun out there before you pulled the alarm?" I will never conduct a fire drill again without remembering Jonesboro. JIM ROBSON Kincaid, Sask...
...FALSE ALARM Women who undergo a mammogram every year for 10 years face a 50% risk of at least one false-positive result. And there's a 20% chance they'll get a biopsy. But women should keep getting mammograms despite fears of suspicious findings...
Rwandan radio today began broadcasting an unusual advertisement -- an invitation from the government to attend the execution of 33 Hutu militants on Friday. While the European Union has expressed alarm, the Rwandan government believes the executions are essential to pacify the country, says TIME's Clive Mutiso. The government wants to show that "justice" is being done and to send a warning to those Hutu militants who continue to mount attacks...
This semester more than ever, I feel the burn. It comes in several forms: 1. That unpleasant haze in which I awake when the alarm goes off after what most people consider a short nap, not a night's rest. 2. That queasy after-lunch feeling that numbs even the most stimulating lectures. 3. That early evening slowdown, where everything works at about half speed until...
...problem with life in the fast lane is that it might get us to the end sooner than we imagine. I recognize this tendency in my life, and want to change it. So I'm letting those textbooks sit a while longer. And I refuse to set my alarm on Saturday morning...