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...four alarm fire earlier this week severely damaged Savenor's Supermarket, the Kirkland Street shop famous for drawing eminent chefs as customers and stocking an exotic selection of foods...
...alarm interrupted classes inside thebuilding, prompting one professor to lament hisruined lecture. But students left immediatelyafter they were permitted to retrieve theirbelongings from the building in groups of three...
...were about to start a midterm for LegalReasoning and about three minutes after we startedwriting the alarm went off. The professor went outof the classroom to check what was going on and wewere told to evacuate [the building]," saidLorraine Lezama...
There was a similar pattern of uncertainty in judgments about Alar, radon and even some forms of PCBs and asbestos. Citing government studies, environmentalists sounded the alarm about toxicity and cancer. The public fretted. Officials issued warnings and regulations. But then skeptical scientists re-evaluated the threat and began to argue that the risks had been exaggerated. After this series of debates, people are wondering if they have been unduly frightened by overzealous, if well-meaning, regulators...
...funny--most of us heard the alarm, butthose things are always blaring around here, so wemade nothing of it," said a resident...