Word: alarmism
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...video monitors displays scenes from 825 cameras arrayed around the airport. Mitch Greenberg, a former paramedic, was the man in the hot seat one recent Sunday, scanning the screens and barking into a microphone to deal with each security infraction--such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents--big weather problems as well as security breaches--the action shifts to the room next door, where a SWAT team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece pops up at the push...
...Other countries have already sounded the alarm over the potential pitfalls. In the U.K., illegal possession of tranquilizers containing benzodiazepine is a crime punishable by up to two years in jail. Benzodiazepines are classified as dangerous drugs in Hong Kong. In the U.S., teenagers and twentysomethings who take Xanax recreationally are known as "Xannie-poppers." Among their ranks: President George W. Bush's niece, Noelle Bush. In January, she was arrested in Florida for posing as a doctor in order to obtain Xanax without a prescription...
...interlopers are thought to have fled once the smoke alarm went off in the basement where they started the fire, according to Queen...
...behind-the-scenes influence peddling and cronyism during Suharto's time. There's no evidence that Taufik has done anything illegal. But his casual assumption of presidential prerogatives, his unabashed wheeling and dealing and the memory of Suharto-style backroom deals that clings to those activities have set alarm bells ringing in Jakarta. Speculation on the actions and intentions of the President's husband reminds Indonesians of the opaqueness of the Suharto era and raises fresh questions about how open the country is really becoming. "There will be no good governance so long as Taufik does not restrain himself from...
...such a background may make the heroism of the fire department irresistible. For some, simply joining the volunteer corps and waiting for a blaze is not enough. The temptation is to light the fire and then bask in the recognition that comes from being the first to sound the alarm. "There's a need to be the hero," says George Miller, president of the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM), "to be there with the rest of the men putting the fire out." As seems to be the case in the Arizona fire, there may also be a financial...