Word: alarmingly
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Steam exhaust filled a basement laundry room in Stoughton Hall shortly after 10:30 p.m. last night, setting off a fire alarm and sending approximately 60 first-year students out into the cold...
...Considering it was like ten degrees, my face was going to freeze," said Hollis resident Ivan Velasco Jr. '98, who was visiting friends at the time of the alarm...
Crime has become Public Enemy No. 1, a bigger concern to most people than joblessness or the federal deficit. All over the U.S., citizens are buying alarm systems, installing window bars and escorting their offspring from school to soccer to Scouts. In a Time/CNN poll, 89% of those surveyed think crime is getting worse, and 55% worry about becoming victims themselves...
...Pennsylvania and a leading expert on what makes people put on pounds. "It runs counter to what we as a nation seem to be doing." In a sharply worded JAMA editorial, Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital sounded the medical alarm, pointing out that the extra baggage is not just unsightly but unhealthy as well. Pi-Sunyer says the plumping of America will put millions of people at an increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, gout, arthritis and some forms of cancer. "If this were about tuberculosis," he observes...
...second lesson is that a crisis can come out of nowhere and land your favorite emerging market on the front pages. Then you read about all the people who saw it coming. If they saw it coming, then why didn't they raise the alarm beforehand...