Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JONESBORO, Ark.: The death count has risen to five in Arkansas after two camouflage-clad boys -- aged 11 and 13 -- opened fire on middle school students assembling for a fire alarm Tuesday. Eleven others are wounded...
BRUCE WILLIS False alarm on the asteroid, but Bruno's big summer movie enjoys an early milewide billboard...
Spring break will be soon upon us and I cannot wait. By the time you read this, I will be zooming my way to a better place, gliding silently over the landscape to where the air is sweeter, the food tastes better, the work seems less daunting, the alarm clocks are not pressing and the rooms are bathed in light. OK, perhaps some of these claims simply reflect the misty-eyed longings of a college student more than ready to bolt out of here for a week, but one thing is for certain--at home things look better because...
Poor dorm-room lighting might be excusable if libraries or other study spaces were Harvard student's places of learning. Rooms are rightfully the place of choice for schedule and fashion reasons--in whose library can you read in pajamas and slippers and have an alarm set to wake you if you happen to doze off? And besides, House libraries and those in and around the Yard do not themselves have such good lighting--beyond the Lamont reference room, the light fixtures provide more ambience than illumination. We can't read by mood alone...
...there's no cause for alarm -- at least, not until 2002, when the rock will be close enough for radar to detect its exact course. That leaves three decades for scientists to decide whether or not to nuke the thing -- and for Hollywood to produce a plethora of asteroid Armageddon flicks...