Word: alarmism
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...Dusk is a personal alarm for women that's flying off the shelves of leading U.K. retailers and will soon be launched in the U.S. It's an odd device. About the size of an iPod, its sole function is to ward off attackers by emitting the piercing sound of a screaming woman. But what's truly unusual about it is the company that developed it: British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty...
...exactly two minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan. Government officials and computer scientists around the globe held their breath. Was this the beginning of a massive Y2K computer meltdown? Actually, no. It was an isolated event, one of a handful of glitches to occur (including the failure of 500 slot machines at two racetracks in Delaware) as the sun rose on the new decade. The dreaded millennial meltdown never happened...
...seems sincere in her apologies, emphasizing that her intentions were good. "I know I sounded an alarm, but it was not done out of malice," she says...
...never wake up in time for breakfast. Every morning, I set my alarm for 9:30 a.m., yet I still sleep right through Currier dining hall’s breakfast hours. Despite my own inability to appreciate the first meal of the day, as the Undergraduate Council president, my past six months have been defined by discussions of hot breakfast. When I ran for the position one year ago, I never thought that over half my time on the council would be spent talking about one meal of the day. Since last May, students have been asking me to fight...
...directors is a former attorney general). There is no public record that the government ever issued a competitive tender for the cars. "When every single vehicle is bought from one dealer and nobody could remember ever seeing an advertisement from the government saying, 'We want to buy these vehicles,' alarm bells start ringing," says Mwalimu Mati, who runs an anticorruption organization called Mars Group Kenya. "That's the reaction that people had." (See the most important cars of all time...