Word: alarms
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...professional and personal conversations, Marra had been hearing more and more complaints from soccer-and-ballet moms about their hectic, joyless lives, and she was having similar misgivings herself. With the backing of her boss, she convened a meeting of parents, clergy and community leaders. They shared their alarm over the growing numbers of elementary students wearing knee braces because of injured and overused limbs, the burnout among high school students who wanted no part of varsity athletics and the homework load that forced schoolkids of all ages to lug backpacks heavy with books. "We're creating a generation that...
...Lowell House, most students sleeping in on Sundays simply consider the bells an alarm clock without a snooze button...
...deepened late last week as the Polish zloty, wobbling with uncertainty over government fiscal policies, hit new lows against the euro (€1 equals 4.66 zlotys), squeezing imports and pushing up interest rates on euro loans. Meanwhile the country's budget deficit - a whopping 5.2% of GDP - is ringing alarm bells in Brussels as Poland prepares to join the E.U. next year, and the euro zone, possibly, in 2007. Leszek Miller's government is backing a tough new austerity package, cutting spending by €6.9 billion within four years. Among other things it will overhaul the pension system (Poland...
...That's right, a dongle. About the size of a small travel alarm clock, the dongle attaches to a desktop PC or a laptop and lets users charge small cyberpurchases to their Vodafone bill. Gates did not deign to use the D word himself - a Vodafone lieutenant joined him on stage to show off the nubby thing - but raved on about visions of "magic advances of hardware and software" that will "make the mobile experience even better than it is today...
...Wake up anywhere with the Executive Travel Alarm Clock. It’s square, steel gray body encases a clear clock face and comes with its own padded, leather travel case. It’s both small and striking, modern and minimalist. $9.99. Radio Shack...