Word: alarms
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...officer was sent to Lowell House to investigate a report of a radio playing in an unoccupied room. The officer entered the room and shut off the alarm clock radio...
SOUNDING THE ALARM...
...occur to me that the missile flying over Camp Iwo Jima in the northern Kuwaiti desert might not be friendly. I'm a doctor, a medical correspondent, not a bang-bang journalist. But I noticed all the Marines around me were hitting the deck. Five seconds later, the alarm "Bunker! Bunker! Bunker!" blared over the P.A. system. Over the next 20 hours, I would share with 70 Marines and two CNN colleagues the same space and the same occupation: target...
These are the features of the new Clifford Matrix RS3, easily the most advanced remote-control and alarm system yet devised for cars. It doesn't come cheap: installation costs range from $600 to $900. For what it's worth, Clifford will pay your insurance deductible if your car is stolen on its watch...
...good seven minutes' walk away. (To be safe, Clifford has the ignition shut itself off after 12 minutes if there's no key in it.) For urban-jungle dwellers, the range is more like two blocks. The Matrix can be set to vibrate rather than beep when the alarm goes off--which should mean more sleep for the rest of your family. Not to mention your neighborhood. --By Chris Taylor