Word: alarmism
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...islands were a heartbreaking flashback to the wider tragedy of the December tsunami, which left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing across the Indian Ocean region. But this time, it soon became clear that the region has?in just 12 weeks?become significantly better prepared to sound the alarm. Touring Nias last week, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told TIME that his country's official response to last week's quake was "faster" than to December's?and he could have been speaking for the entire Indian Ocean area...
...then many people still would have lost their lives." Thailand will have a more sophisticated system in place by the end of the month, Dharmmasaroj says. Warning towers are now being installed in areas hit by December's tsunami; they will use sirens and loudspeakers to sound an alarm. "We'll have a telecommunication system that will allow us to send out warnings to every mobile phone," he adds, "and we'll be able to cut into regular television broadcasts...
...past collected ancient Aboriginal bark coffins, complete with the bones they protected. In the 1970s he bought a demountable shed for the backyard of his outback station in western Queensland to store his collection of the rare cylinders, which he calls "assemblages." He installed climate control and a radar alarm system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector for one of the bodies, which he has described as the Australian equivalent of the pharaonic mummies from Egypt...
...WARNING Finally, the report sounds the alarm about a biological warfare attack on the U.S., saying the country has so far avoided such a potential catastrophe mostly by luck. "The threat is deeply troubling today; it will be more so tomorrow," the report declared in some of its most pointed language. "The intelligence community, and the government as a whole, needs to approach the problem with a new urgency and new strategies...
What's more, when he recorded brain activity using electroencephalograms, Battaglia found that those with higher scores for shyness had lower levels of activity in the cortex, where sophisticated thought takes place. That suggested higher levels of activity in the more primitive amygdala, where anxiety and alarm are sounded. Shy children, Battaglia concluded, may simply be less adept at reading the facial flickers other kids use as social cues. Unable to rely on those helpful signals, they tend to go on high alert, feeling anxious about any face they can't decipher. "The capacity to interpret faces...