Word: alarms
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TIME.com: After setting off diplomatic alarm bells on his Korea stance a few weeks after taking office, President Bush has now announced plans to resume negotiations with North Korea. Why has the administration decided to talk to Pyongyang, and how will its approach to such negotiations differ from that of the Clinton administration...
...Several of our freshmen encounters had prophetic attributes. Our roommate with creative writing aspirations decided to set his alarm at 3 a.m. everyday. When asked by his bunkmate why he was waking up at this time, he responded by saying that he wanted to record his dreams. After a few episodes of these nightly roosts and reading the creative writing, the bunkmate suggested that his roommate bag the alarm clock and forego creative writing for non-fiction. The advice was prophetic, because a Pulitzer Prize was realized many years later for non-fiction writing...
...Several of our freshmen encounters had prophetic attributes. Our roommate with creative writing aspirations decided to set his alarm at 3 a.m. everyday. When asked by his bunkmate why he was waking up at this time, he responded by saying that he wanted to record his dreams. After a few episodes of these nightly roosts and reading the creative writing, the bunkmate suggested that his roommate bag the alarm clock and forego creative writing for non-fiction. The advice was prophetic, because a Pulitzer Prize was realized many years later for non-fiction writing...
...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...
...fire alarm was pulled, bringing four trucks and two police cruisers to the scene. Thirty University police officers tried to keep order, though one reportedly lost his badge...