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...game was interrupted one minute later by a fire alarm; players, fans, and reporters were forced to vacate Briggs Cage for nearly 15 minutes...
Surprisingly, the alarm had little effect on either team. The Crimson actually played better after the break, outscoring the Bulldogs 18-10 over the next five minutes and extending the lead...
Rescue workers were drawn to the scene by thebuilding's fire alarm which was set off by theimpact, according to Joe Wrinn, acting director ofthe Harvard News Office. "It was that alarm andeyewitness action that got everybody moving," hesaid...
...similarly grounded in facts or else have made minimal risks seem major ones. In May 1989, CR did a story on the health risks posed by the continued use of the chemical Alar to ripen apples. The piece made news in other magazines and on TV and helped spread alarm about the chemical; eventually, stores took Alar-treated apples off the shelf, costing U.S. apple growers an estimated $100 million in discarded produce. While some, including CR, still maintain that Alar could pose a hazard, the National Cancer Institute, the American Medical Association and the Surgeon General concluded that...
...only a couple of years from achieving a preliminary goal, perfecting ALVINN as an anticollision device to jog sleepy drivers before they run off the road. When a car drifts dangerously close to the border of its lane, a road-watching camera would do something like ring an alarm bell or shake the driver's seat. ``Fully automated driving may be a ways off,'' says Pomerleau, ``but in the near term we're doing work to save lives.'' For now, however, if you see ALVINN coming at you on the road, you might want to keep a respectful distance...