Word: alarmism
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...into the car ahead of them. Abena Adofo, 23, said she was daydreaming when the door of her car burst open and up to 20 people ran in. People pushed their way to the other side of the train in confusion and someone pulled the passenger alarm. "I was shaky and scared," she said, "but like everyone else, I was trying to get out." According to Adofo, an IT trainer who was heading back home to East London when the incident occurred, even though there was panic, the subway passengers thought of their fellow riders as they tried to leave...
...Instead of the sounds of bus motors and chatty commuters, my buzzing alarm clock started my day. The absence of car horns and sirens that I usually hear on Fleet Street made Friday?s ?rush hour? seem more like Sunday afternoon. Cars that normally inch through congested streets rolled down open lanes. The sidewalks were void of the scents of coffee and cigarettes. Only a handful of commuters were popping into their favorite stores for their morning croissant and bagels...
...KIDDE WIRELESS SYSTEM includes a detector and the SmokeSounder add-on alarm, which features a lower-frequency siren for the hearing-impaired and spoken alerts that kids can easily understand www.kiddeus.com $50 each for detector and SmokeSounder, available at Lowe...
California has been doing a lot of shaking of late. In mid-June a sizable quake off its north coast triggered a tsunami warning, a false alarm, fortunately, while far to the south, earthquakes of lesser power knocked stuff off shelves and seriously rattled the composure of those who felt the ground sway beneath them. That's because the earthquakes that concern Californians most are those that haven't happened--at least, not yet--along the state's fault-fractured western edge...
Western security agents learned of the diversion scheme last July and managed to catch up with some of the less important gear, packaged as burglar-alarm equipment bound for Turkey. Officials who tailed the hot computer hardware are virtually certain the remainder of the equipment is now in East Germany or the Soviet Union. LAWSUITS Better Late Than Never...