Word: alarmism
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...water, which immediately set off the fire alarm, found its way into lighting fixtures and electrical equipment...
...night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his alarm for 2 a.m. Waking in the dark, he took a thermos of coffee and a pack of Nicorette gum to the cluster of computer terminals in his home office. As he had almost every night for the previous four months, he worked at his secret volunteer job until dawn...
...impact of the 21st century's first oil alarm was equally apparent in other developing Asian countries. In Indonesia?a proud member of the OPEC cartel, never mind the fact that it's now a net importer of crude oil?the currency is in free fall and the government is burning through its foreign exchange reserves, thanks to a longstanding and increasingly ruinous policy of providing subsidized fuel to consumers. Gasoline in Jakarta costs a mere 27? per liter; some economists worry that if the government continues to spend an estimated $1 billion a month on fuel subsidies...
...technological boom has come so fast that doctors and patients are faced with the challenge of sorting the scans from the scams. Medicare and insurance companies are looking with growing alarm at the overall surge in the use of expensive imaging scans for all parts of the body. The reasons for the increase are complex--and hotly disputed--but many cardiologists are worried that fights over which procedures get reimbursed and who gets to order them could strangle the latest innovations...
...vigilant and largely unsung astronomers who scan the skies for asteroids that could threaten the Earth, there is some good news and some bad news about 2004MN4. This was the initial designation for an asteroid that caused a flurry of alarm among scientists when it was discovered last December apparently heading for a frightening rendezvous with our planet on April...