Word: alarms
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...Duke of Dubuque and the Pasha of Oshkosh who butted in front of me at the airport put their stuff on the conveyor and walked through the scanner, and something on the Pasha's person set off the alarm. A security guy set about frisking him with a wand, which irked His Eminence, as did the request to remove the royal shoes. They were put through the scanner, and his briefcase was searched, and His Eminence started to give off anger fumes. He sighed deeply and shook his head at the insanity of it all. But the woman scanning...
...being a bastion of live-and-let-live harmony has always been something of a lie. Muslim frustration at discrimination and Hindu resentment of governmental assistance to minorities explode every few years in violence. But as the March riots raged on for weeks in Gujarat, they provoked particular alarm. While human-rights groups demanded Modi be tried for genocide, Hindu political parties, cultural groups and hordes of street demonstrators celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight as the white-haired, bespectacled figurehead of Indian intolerance, a national Hindu hero...
...didn’t see any of the campaign posters in Weld, but the proctors and other people here do make an effort to conserve,” Ivona Josipovic ’06 said. “But there is this one girl who left her alarm clock on, and it has been beeping nonstop for the past three days...
...walls of a heart vessel--the immune system sends in wave after wave of cells to swarm and destroy the invader. In the blood vessels, layers of these immune cells pile up, creating lesions that become increasingly unstable and may eventually rupture, triggering a heart attack. How sensitive this alarm system is depends on such things as diet, stress and one's genetic predisposition...
...designer tags off the insides of your clothes because their tiny tickle drives you nuts. Maybe you stick a Post-it note over your blinking e-mail icon because the flashing distracts you. Maybe you run an air conditioner in November to drown out the sound of a car alarm that doesn't seem to bother anyone else. If this is you, take heart. You're not necessarily becoming an intolerant crank; rather, you may be suffering from a spanking-new syndrome called sensory defensive (SD) disorder...