Word: alarmism
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...strapped” aside, you can rage against any machine you please and you choose the seatbelt law? DJ Babu saves the day occasionally. “Back Again” is a great single with chipmunked out vocal samples and an insistent guitar loop. “Alarm Clock Music” brings the close-quarters paranoia that’s been floating around the West Coast for years, and “20/20” is stuffed, Bomb Squad-style, to the breaking point. The MCs respond well to Babu’s better beats, shifting...
...Police responded to a fire alarm at the Fairchild Biochemistry Building last Tuesday to find a fourth-floor biology experiment gone awry. A beaker of ethanol had turned over and ignited, the experimenters told police that night. They cleaned it up, and one was treated for minor burns at University Health Services. By the time the smoke had cleared, Cambridge Fire Department and Facilities Maintenance Operations had reported to the scene...
...residents of Chicago and its outlying areas, the recent news that three of energy powerhouse Exelon's nuclear plants in Illinois have, on several occasions, leaked the radioactive material tritium has been scary enough. Then there was this past weekend's false alarm at another of Exelon's plants, which, while not related, set off the nation's first "site-area emergency" at a U.S. nuclear facility in 15 years. The fact that upon further review, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that the incidents were much ado about nothing with "no release of radioactivity... no danger to the public...
...Weller, whose district covers three of Exelon's plants, and other critics first sounded the alarm following three leaks in the past month, including one from aged pipe that was due to be replaced in June. But more worrisome, they said, was the fact that the company and federal officials only recently disclosed publicly that, in fact, there had been eight leaks and spills going back 10 years. Most occurred in pipes that are supposed to safely dispose of waste but on some occasions leaked tritium into the ground water. One spill, in 1998 at the company's Braidwood generating...
...short new CUE evaluation form this Friday and discussed the possibility of moving both the CUE Guide and the Courses of Instruction catalog online in the near future. Members of the committee also expressed support for an Undergraduate Council (UC) effort to improve the Quad Library and expressed alarm at the high prices of coursepacks, which they said might be avoidable...