Word: alarms
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...former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn's appointment by the international community to help lay the economic foundations of Palestinian statehood was an expression of optimism in the prospects for peace following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year, then his resignation last Sunday should sound an alarm. Trained as a banker rather than a diplomat, former World Bank chief Wolfensohn didn't mince words about his reasons for stepping down. He said the current U.S.-Israeli financial blockade of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority looks set to destroy the administrative institutions on which a two-state solution would...
Students’ ambiguity about the syndrome and its treatment has led to a proliferation of use and abuse on campus—but the alarm bells are not sounding. For the Ritalin Generation, "speed kills" sounds like an old wives’ tale, and a prescription slip for Adderall looks no different from a 7/11 energy drink receipt...
...comes after the group took first place in the 2005 Harvard Entrepreneurial Contest, sponsored by Harvard Student Agencies. To earn the Peltier prize, LONO beat out other projects that made it to the final round including a touch-screen for placing restaurant orders, a personal safety alarm in the form of a wireless key-chain, and a device that allows electronic textbook downloading...
...proof, his book reproduces a dire report by France's police intelligence unit responsible for identifying and tracking extremists. The problem, security officials say, is the document de Villiers has brandished is bogus - containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected of Islamist ties - and who may now go underground...
...BUZZ The Poseidon Adventure does not generate much Internet alarm over its desecration. The folks at Warner Bros. (like TIME, an arm of Time Warner), seem to be quietly confident. Their ace in the hole is director Wolfgang Petersen, who, having directed The Perfect Storm and Das Boot, knows from terror and tension on top of and beneath the waves. Poseidon could just be the preposterous, grip-the-armrest thriller people love in summer. Or, like the ship, it could be a sinker. -By Belinda Luscombe...