Word: alarms
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...majority ruled in Kyllo's favor. And the dissenting Justices in the 5-4 decision made it clear that even if they were willing to accept "off-the-wall" technologies like infrared guns--which can pick up signals only from the outside of a building--they viewed with alarm newer "through-the-wall" devices that can see inside...
...Last week things looked dire because the NLA occupied a village in the hills around the capital. That created a high level of alarm in Skopje - one Western diplomat said it was as if a knife was pointing at the heart of the city. But as far as what the EU can do to persuade the parties to come to some sort of agreement, they've already threatened to reduce financial aid if there's no agreement by Monday, and that doesn't seem to have helped. Part of the problem here is that the Europeans have insufficient leverage...
...alone in sounding the alarm. Like many other physicians, Dr. Robert Russell of the schools of medicine and nutrition at Tufts University in Boston advises patients who want to try botanical medicines to stick with the pill forms. "I think some of these herbals are effective," he says. "But I don't think we know enough about their long-term safety to put them in the food supply...
...last time the group took hostages from a tourist resort?21 were seized in April last year on Sipadan, a famous diving site on the Malaysian coast?they collected an estimated $25 million in ransom. But even before the Sipadan raid, the name Abu Sayyaf raised alarm among Western intelligence agencies. Abu Sayyaf kept surfacing in connection with various plots by Islamic terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, now serving a life sentence for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City. Both Yousef and Abu Sayyaf founder Janjalani may have received training in the early 1990s at a commando...
Young gay men should take more responsibility for their health, but until this week, the government wasn't doing much to sound the alarm. Congress allocates more than $7 billion a year for AIDS treatment. But HIV-prevention efforts have never been sufficient. It took until this year--20 years into the epidemic--for the CDC to come up with its first comprehensive plan to change sexual behavior, through education and counseling, among those already infected. AIDS activists estimate that it would cost $1.3 billion to implement that plan, while the current budget for prevention is only $844 million. That...