Word: alarmism
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...Early. Very early. Is the sun even up at 4:45? Porter could tell you because he wakes up this early every morning. “I rarely if ever use an alarm clock. I rely on my body to let me know how much sleep it needs...
...what panic looks like. On Tuesday an office worker in suburban Virginia settled down on a toilet seat, yanked off a piece of double-ply toilet paper and found a message written between the leaves: "You're sitting in anthrax, and you're dead." The investigators rushed in: false alarm. The Nashville, Tenn., haz-mat team was called out five times in 48 hours, all for hoaxes. A woman phoned in a report that her computer keyboard was covered with a powdery substance. The FBI discovered that she had been eating cookies. The State Department was evacuated because somebody spilled...
...started picking stuff up from the floor, trying frantically to save our stuff,” said Abby Wild ’02, who was in her room at the time. “Then we realized the fire alarm was going off. We changed clothes and ran into the stairwell...
Although Harvard and Cambridge officials took safety precautions yesterday, Feranzi indicated that the incident may turn out to be a false alarm...
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert sounded a note of alarm when he told reporters there may be reason to suspect the spores from the Daschle letter infiltrated the ventilation system in the lawmakers' office buildings. The House has shut down until October 23rd, and the Senate will close early on Friday so the buildings can be tested...