Word: alarms
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...weeks ago, a burglar alarm for a building in Radcliffe Yard sounded and then stopped almost immediately...
...wasn't a big deal for the police officer who responded--the alarm sounds every Sunday afternoon as the same employee heads into work...
Since January, HUPD has required officers to respond to and confirm every alarm--even if it resets immediately or someone calls in to say they set if off accidentally...
...halt the decline of the Everglades, the "river of grass" that once covered 4,500 sq. mi. (11,700 sq km) in Florida. Having spent much of this century channeling, damming and diverting Everglades water for urban and agricultural use, state and federal politicians have watched with growing alarm as these alterations threw the ecosystem into a tailspin. Wading-bird populations have plummeted; sport and commercial fish catches have fallen; 68 of the Everglades' resident species, including the manatee and the panther, have become endangered; and the capacity of the system to store water has shrunk even as human demand...
...dive in his mellifluous French accent: "I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing." But the former French navy officer had a serious side. Cruising the oceans in his vessel Calypso, he became increasingly worried about their health and founded the Cousteau Society to sound the alarm...