Word: alarms
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...panel representing U.S. spy agencies, detailed the threat posed by stored Russian nuclear weapons. Poverty is rampant among Russian nuclear-weapons guards, it noted. Many are homeless, and some have conducted hunger strikes because they have not been paid. Guards sometimes abandon their posts, and at one location an alarm system works only half the time. Russia's nuclear security, the report concluded, "may not be sufficient to meet today's challenge of a knowledgeable insider collaborating with a criminal or terrorist group." The Bush Administration's response? Conditions can only get better, officials say, as the U.S. continues...
...discussing attacks on "soft targets," meaning nongovernmental buildings and places where large numbers of Americans gather. Although investigators remain leery of anything Abu Zubaydah says, they don't want to discount his remarks entirely. So instead of issuing a public warning that might turn out to be a false alarm, this time they passed the message along to local police chiefs and mayors discreetly...
...patron of the Palestinian uprising, sending cash to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers instead of spending it to feed and house long-suffering Iraqis. Most of them despair. But they celebrate his birthday nonetheless. Karim, 36, who asked that I give him a pseudonym, runs a car-alarm business: the nouveau riche at the top of this corrupt society can easily afford his $45 systems to protect their new Nissans and Protons. But Karim cannot feed his family of four on his meager monthly food ration. His earnings at the shop let him buy a little meat...
...Swedish results hold up, there still may not be any cause for alarm. "Just because you can detect something doesn't mean it's significant," says Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and nutrition at the University of Maine in Orono. Our tools for detecting the presence of minute quantities of contaminants, she points out, are far more refined than our understanding of how the body deals with them...
...HUPD officers and the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a fire alarm in Wolbach Hall. They evacuated the building and extinguished the fire, which was confined to the basement of the building...