Word: alarms
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...entire entryway in Eliot House was left homeless late Saturday night after a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher, flooding the entryway with powdery chemicals and leaving students searching for a place to sleep for the night. Cambridge firefighters responded to an alarm in Eliot’s D entryway at around 2 a.m. yesterday, causing residents to gather outside the building. After about 30 minutes outside, tutors informed the residents of D entryway that they would not be allowed back into their rooms—and told a frigid crowd that any student found in the closed entryway would...
Waking up is hazardous The morning haze you experience when the alarm clock goes off is known as sleep inertia, and it clouds your brain more than sleep deprivation. The impairment is most severe in the first 10 minutes but can linger for up to two hours...
...most common sexually transmitted infection and the cause of 70% of cervical-cancer cases. Because the vaccine is most effective when administered before girls become sexually active, a government committee recommended that it be given routinely to girls ages 11 and 12--which immediately triggered cries of alarm from pro-abstinence groups that feared doing so would encourage promiscuity. Some health advocates were also worried that women might see the vaccine as a substitute for yearly screenings like Pap smears...
...more vividly than we do the rational response--an advantage that doesn't disappear with time. The brain is wired in such a way that nerve signals travel more readily from the amygdala to the upper regions than from the upper regions back down. Setting off your internal alarm is quite easy, but shutting it down takes some doing...
...previous one, and any that follow will trouble you even less. In some respects, this is a good thing, particularly if the initial reaction was excessive. But it's also unavoidable given our tendency to habituate to any unpleasant stimulus, from pain and sorrow to a persistent car alarm...