Word: alarms
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...initial building alarm brought a Cambridge Fire Department truck and two Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) cars about 12:20 p.m, according to one officer. Once the problem was discovered, workers pumped the water...
Prompted by concerns from some residents who said they did not hear fire alarms, Harvard and city officials also checked the alarm systems before residents were allowed back into the building, said University spokesperson Joe Wrinn...
Figuring how to beat the competition without setting off the alarm at Justice is the job of Microsoft's newly appointed chief software architect. His name: Bill Gates...
...best reason to keep the public Genome Project going, its scientists say, is that it is, well, public. Alarm bells rang last year when Celera announced that it had filed provisional patents on hundreds of newly discovered genes--a list that by last week had grown to include thousands of genes. Venter has pledged that he will eventually give away the completely decoded genome and make his money by selling the computer services needed to make sense of it. For now, however, he is charging $5,000 to $5 million a year to wade through his data...
...That position - essentially supported by Bradley - will certainly be applauded in Democratic core constituencies who were appalled by the Clinton administration's retreat to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. But it set alarm bells ringing in military circles, as a number of former commanders rushed critical comments into print. Elsewhere in the debate, the candidates sparred testily on health care, campaign finance and their respective voting records, in a tone of civility akin to the cursory touching of gloves required of boxers entering their final round - and sometimes with all the trash-talking of a prefight media...