Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constant Vigil. This time lag has enabled NASA to set up a reasonably reliable Solar Particle Alert Network (SPAN) to protect astronauts from the vagaries of the sun. SPAN consists of six observatories that monitor the sun 24 hours a day. During this week's Apollo flight, they will feed information into a space environment console in Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, where physicists and medical men will keep a constant vigil. In addition, Pioneer, Vela and other patrolling satellites will report any changes in solar radiation. Should SPAN report a suspicious-looking flare during the Apollo mission...
...Tupamaro discipline stresses indoctrination as well as military and physical training. A captured document exhorts members to be "complete Samurai, with muscles of steel, an alert mind, instant reflexes, resistance to pain and a thorough knowledge of weapons." Although there have been a number of successful weapons raids on government arsenals, there has been little gunplay. Perhaps the Tupamaros want to avoid hurting innocent bystanders and tarnishing their Robin Hood reputation...
...possible abuse of constabulary power, Maclnnes knew that he did not like policemen. So, in Mr. Love and Justice, he contrived a minuet about how the police and vice prey on each other. Born policemen, Maclnnes believes, think like born criminals. Both move through the world of mugs with alert and total mistrust...
...Alert. Electrical hazards in hospitals fall into two main categories: 1) those resulting from the complexity of the equipment, which may be made by different manufacturers and thus have incompatible grounding systems, and 2) those arising from simple causes, such as worn cords and broken plugs...
...operating room, recovery room or intensive-care unit of a modern hospital, the more sophisticated devices may actually be safer than the routine ones, because they are used by highly trained physicians and nurses who are on the alert for danger signals. Even so, says Walter, such vigilance may not always be sufficient. In a situation involving a patient who has an electrical lead going into his heart or a major artery, for example, a minute accidental current leakage, ordinarily considered negligible, may stop a patient's heart. Perhaps more dangerous in the long run are the heating pads...