Word: alarms
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With all the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth heard all across the campus recently, you'd think that Harvard students heard stallions braying and trampling hooves pounding on asphalt as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gallopped up J.F.K. Street. But their cause for alarm was actually Harvard's slip from first to third place in the annual U.S. News and World Report college rankings. Apparently, students at Stanford are also reacting hysterically to their tumble from fourth to sixth place...
...Apparently the library had turned off their alarms. We don't know what happened, but the alarm didn't go off," he said. "The alarm went off in the morning. That was when it was being turned back on or being tested...
Steen said he did not know whether the alarm was left unarmed when the library was closed or if it was deactivated in the course of the theft. He was unable to speculate about why the alarm might have been left...
...needed: a check list, a syllabus, a hand to hold just as we were letting go. I'll admit that armed with The List, we all thought we were studs. It truly was immense to the eye. I've seen some lists that have the obvious needs: sheets, computer, alarm clock, towels. I've even seen some flashes of creativity in lists that extolled the virtues of packing and shipping such things as flip-flops and Imodium A-D caplets...
Today the timber industry no longer enjoys the absolute fealty it once did. Mainers have watched with alarm over the past two decades as some 2,000 sq. mi. of forest--roughly the area of Delaware--have been clear-cut. From the air, the rich coat of the North Woods looks like it has mange. In the past five years, softwoods such as spruce and fir have been chopped down at a pace almost double their rate of growth. "There is no question that clear-cutting was overused," concedes Roger Milliken, one of the most progressive of the large landowners...