Word: alarms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feel as if I'd orphaned my baby. TIME: Why didn't you film The Magdalene Sisters in Ireland, where it's set? Mullan: It came down to money. But I was a bit concerned when we couldn't get an advert in one of the Irish newspapers. Alarm bells went off, rightly or wrongly. I worried that we'd be met with similar small acts of sabotage. TIME: You still consider yourself a Catholic? Mullan: My mother handed over my soul when I was two weeks old, and they educated me until I was 18. I don't want...
...dressed and heading downtown. By the time he arrived, the bag was cordoned and the bomb dogs were circling it. They didn't alert. The bag contained only paperwork. "In these times," Anderson says, "you don't assume anything will turn out to be a false alarm...
...would be nice if, when the next alert goes out, rousing the public's justifiable outrage and the media's sometimes questionable interest, it might trigger a wider, silent alarm as well--for the kids who can't disappear because they are already lost...
What can one conference do, especially given that the record in the decade since the Earth Summit is largely one of painfully slow progress and a deepening global environmental crisis? Johannesburg will surely sound another alarm. Above all, it must revive high-level political commitment to sustainable development. We have seen the results that can be achieved when leaders speak publicly about an issue--be it aids, aid or trade--and put the full weight and resources of their administrations behind...
Call them the ephedra wars. For the past five years, the FDA has been trying to restrict the availability of ephedra, an herbal stimulant and the active ingredient in hundreds of popular diet aids and energy boosters sold across the U.S. The reason for the agency's mounting alarm: ephedra has been linked to a number of strokes, heart attacks and seizures and more than 100 deaths. But every time the FDA gets closer to its goal, the dietary-supplements industry successfully lobbies other parts of the government to roll back changes...