Word: alarmism
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...Ging ’11 hears music blasting from her neighbors’ room until 2 a.m. every night, but says, “It’s not a big deal, just a bit annoying.” Even more annoying for Ging is hearing the firedoor alarm go off whenever a belligerent party-hopper gets lazy and forgets to read...
Over the past 20 years the digital "alarm" clock has been moved four times to make way for bulldozers and wrecking crews. Today, it hangs near the entrance of the city's IRS office. Said the younger Durst in an interview with TIME,"We thought it was a fitting location...
...spivs" who caused the mess, while union leaders and politicians raised cheers by bashing the rich. Brown's keynote speech talked of a new era that demands heavier regulation, an era in which the rich will "be able to look after themselves." That sort of talk sets off alarm bells. "There is a risk that a mood could emerge, an anti-City mood," says Douglas McWilliams, chief executive of London's Centre for Economics and Business Research. "You sense that now with the Labour Party in a rather weak state, there could be a bit of populism that could actually...
When Banaji, along with cognitive neuroscientist Liz Phelps of New York University, conducted brain scans of subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging, they uncovered the reasons for the results. White subjects respond with greater activation of the amygdala--a region that processes alarm--when shown images of black faces than when shown images of white faces. "One of the amygdala's critical functions is fear-conditioning," says Phelps. "You attend to things that are scary because that's essential for survival." Later studies have shown similar results when black subjects look at white faces...
...offered alongside the latter, it must be on a provisional basis only. While we should hardly resist the chronic adaptation of interests and habits amongst young people, we must simultaneously insist upon the preservation the our more classic literary forms. After all, perhaps there is less cause for alarm than a few among us might suggest; perhaps the duel for the hearts and minds of students is not quite a zero-sum game. Mark Seidenberg, a reading researcher at the University of Wisconsin, said it best: “I actually think reading is pretty great and can compete with...