Word: alarms
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...true clique in the making from the moment we made our sweaty post-FOP introductions, my first-year roommates determined that we would exist as a pack. The four of us synchronized our alarm clocks. Our Annenberg schedule was timed so we would never have a solo meal...
...laws of physics may have their final revenge. Transistor components are fast approaching the dreaded point-one limit--when the width of transistor components reaches .1 microns and their insulating layers are only a few atoms thick. Last year Intel engineer Paul Packan publicly sounded the alarm in Science magazine, warning that Moore's law could collapse. He wrote, "There are currently no known solutions to these problems...
...favorite) "squishings" increasingly dominate many of the movies we let our kids watch, leading to the inevitable--an earnest Harvard study. Normally, I'd rather have the Roadrunner drop an anvil on my head than endure another research paper on violence permeating the media--especially one that views with alarm Tigger's playful bowling over of Winnie the Pooh. But as I read the Harvard report, I found that it offers a useful reminder: many popular animated videos contain violence that shouldn't be emulated and scary scenes that young viewers need to have explained to them by adults...
...breakthrough, the pill is also a flash point for political dissension: The efficacy of the pill is a boon to women's health care advocates, who see RU-486 as a much-needed, less invasive alternative to surgical abortions. Abortion opponents, of course, view the pill's potency with alarm, and have urged the FDA to withhold approval of the drug...
They walked to the alarmed door at the back of the giant hall, leaving the sheets and the broken table to puzzle tomorrow's workers. Pausing at the threshold, he turned to aim his orange-stained glass at the statue's head. Before plastic struck marble, they were out the door. Members of the 35th Reunion Class still awake at that hour looked out their Canaday windows to see two dark figures turn the corner onto Prescott Street. Behind them, under the stained-glass windows of Annenberg Hall, John Quincy Adams shrieked out an alarm to a vast and empty...