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...same overall type of refurbishment is being done in Apley Court in preparation for the first-year residents this year, and a new fire alarm system is being installed in Currier...
...raid on Rick Arritola's mink farm in Mount Angel, Ore., was carried out with military precision. Working under cover of darkness, a small group of antifur activists cut through a wire-mesh fence, pepper-sprayed a watchdog, bypassed an alarm system, opened cages and set free as many as 10,000 scurrying animals, most of them destined to be made into sleek, high-priced fur coats. It was a daring act of ecovandalism, perhaps the largest illegal animal release in U.S. history...
...direction to the JONBENET RAMSEY murder probe, the Boulder, Colo., district attorney, ALEX HUNTER, has quietly merged his agents with the Boulder police and moved them into a "war room" of three offices in Boulder's Justice Center, equipping it with shredders, secure phones, computers and a high-tech alarm system that guards against eavesdropping microphones. A nine-member team of detectives and assistant prosecutors will work out of the suite, which has a private entrance. The union between these sometimes antagonistic agencies was instigated by Hunter as a go-for-broke effort to bring greater focus to the often...
...hang up the phone and grab my portable alarm clock off the adjacent shelf. It's 9:13 a.m. I drop the clock to the floor, roll over and go back to sleep...
Since the Reagan Administration's landmark report, A Nation at Risk, sounded the alarm in 1983, schools have been under constant pressure to help all students learn more, premised on the notion that whatever we asked of students in the past will not be sufficient for them or the country in the future...