Word: alarms
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...enrolled in elementary Vietnamese, I trekked to Van Serg, home of the East Asian studies department, every morning. Perhaps to provide an authentic Asian experience, the building is located halfway to Vietnam, meaning I had to leave at 8:30 a.m. The story was always the same. The alarm goes off at 8, but I pretend not to hear it. I have to pee, but I deny that my bladder is about to pop. I even convince myself it would be better just to wet the bed: I’m freezing and the warmth will do me good...
Although large museums have had their share of embarrassing robberies--in 1911 the Mona Lisa was taken from the Louvre--the greatest problem is small institutions like the Munch Museum or private homes open to the public. Neither can afford elaborate security. Large museums attach alarms to their most valuable canvases, but a modest alarm system can cost $500,000 or more. Some museums are looking into tracking devices that would allow them to follow stolen items once they leave the premises. "But conservators are concerned that if they have to insert something, it might damage the object," says Wilbur...
...increases life-spans of yeast and fruit flies. It works by amplifying the action of a molecule called SIRT1, which is present in all life forms and is produced in response to stress. "It's like a cell's 911 center," says Sinclair, and resveratrol is like a false alarm...
...found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature of the catastrophes was only the first clue that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region, where 1303 fell, heard explosions before the crash. Siberia Airlines said 1047 had put out a "hijack alarm" as it went down. To a country that has become used to terror attacks large and small, the culprits seemed obvious: the Chechens again. Elections for Chechnya's President - replacing Akhmad Kadyrov, blown up last May - were due in a few days, and had been denounced by the rebels...
...refined and complicated and for the rich, instead applying French techniques generously and sloppily to local American ingredients. She flambeed with insouciance. And unlike most other revolutionaries, she had a sense of humor. She was famous at her alma mater, Smith College, for her practical jokes, like placing an alarm clock inside an organ and setting it to go off during an assembly. For Smith, that's pretty good stuff...