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...that of someone who does not. Stimulation studies using the drug yohimbine have revealed an abnormal firing rate in an area of the brain stem called the locus ceruleus, which is rich in cells that release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, the trigger for human fight-or-flight response. This primal alarm system has obvious survival value--useful for fleeing man-eating tigers and such. But in patients with panic disorder, it appears to kick in at too low a threshold...
...students were told of the burglaries because such a string of larcenies occurs very rarely, Sparagana said. "We didn't want to alarm them because all the locks had been changed," she said
Last week's economic news seemed to come gift-wrapped for the White House: unemployment fell steeply and unexpectedly to 5.1% in August, the lowest it's been since 1989. Yet with more people working and paychecks fattening, the alarm bells in the inflation firehouse known as the Federal Reserve Bank must be going off. Some economists believe that inflation is inevitable when the unemployment rate drops below 6%, because wages rise as the labor market tightens. Average hourly earnings in August rose by 0.5%, bringing wage increases over the past year to 3.6%. Throw in the torrid...
Both Harvard and Cambridge officials insisted that this is an isolated incident and is no cause for serious alarm...
...last voyage. On a starry night, aloft on a waveless ocean, the ship is seen steaming serenely toward New York City at 22 knots. In scene after scene Hansen describes an eerie quiet: the reader feels no sense of doom or foreboding. Wireless warnings of icebergs are received, without alarm...