Word: alarms
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...night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his alarm for 2 a.m. Waking in the dark, he took a thermos of coffee and a pack of Nicorette gum to the cluster of computer terminals in his home office. As he had almost every night for the previous four months, he worked at his secret volunteer job until dawn...
...technological boom has come so fast that doctors and patients are faced with the challenge of sorting the scans from the scams. Medicare and insurance companies are looking with growing alarm at the overall surge in the use of expensive imaging scans for all parts of the body. The reasons for the increase are complex--and hotly disputed--but many cardiologists are worried that fights over which procedures get reimbursed and who gets to order them could strangle the latest innovations...
...vigilant and largely unsung astronomers who scan the skies for asteroids that could threaten the Earth, there is some good news and some bad news about 2004MN4. This was the initial designation for an asteroid that caused a flurry of alarm among scientists when it was discovered last December apparently heading for a frightening rendezvous with our planet on April...
...into the car ahead of them. Abena Adofo, 23, said she was daydreaming when the door of her car burst open and up to 20 people ran in. People pushed their way to the other side of the train in confusion and someone pulled the passenger alarm. "I was shaky and scared," she said, "but like everyone else, I was trying to get out." According to Adofo, an IT trainer who was heading back home to East London when the incident occurred, even though there was panic, the subway passengers thought of their fellow riders as they tried to leave...
...Instead of the sounds of bus motors and chatty commuters, my buzzing alarm clock started my day. The absence of car horns and sirens that I usually hear on Fleet Street made Friday?s ?rush hour? seem more like Sunday afternoon. Cars that normally inch through congested streets rolled down open lanes. The sidewalks were void of the scents of coffee and cigarettes. Only a handful of commuters were popping into their favorite stores for their morning croissant and bagels...