Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cool New World Your article "biochips for everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Nov. 14]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activities. Should biochips become commonly used, people might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone who did not have a biochip could...
...officer was dispatched to Greenough Hall to a report of a loud alarm clock. The officer arrived and shut off the alarm clock. Dec. 5: 10:31 a.m.—An officer was dispatched to the Andover Library, on 45 Francis Ave., to take a report of a stolen checkbook and a check that was cashed in the amount of $485. 4:42 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to the Kennedy School to a report of an individual causing a disturbance in the building. The officers arrived and located the individual. The individual was run for wants/warrants...
...quality product for the consumer, success would be based not on profits alone but on the more important goal of user satisfaction. Rachel Somodi Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. The Cool New World Your article "Biochips For Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Nov. 14]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements...
...that Hillary Clinton will seek, and receive, the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, pointing to her strength as a fundraiser and her ability to appeal to the traditional Democratic base: minority voters, liberals, and women. And women—especially single women—Morris notes with some alarm, are the key to winning American elections. Their move to the Republican Party in the 2004 election, he believes, gave Bush the critical edge over Kerry. Their traditional allegiance to the Democrats is the only thing keeping the donkey from falling on its ass.Hillary’s appeal...
...three-alarm fire tore through a Harvard-owned house at 47-49 Banks St. in the early morning hours the day after Thanksgiving, claiming the life of one inhabitant and reducing the building to rubble. The building, which housed two Harvard graduate students and Cambridge resident Gladys Evans, 78, was consumed by an accidental blaze, according to Cambridge Fire Department Chief of Operations John Gialanis. He said the department plans to issue a formal report about the fire’s cause today. Evans, the building’s only inhabitant at the time, died in the fire. Her nieces...