Word: alerted
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...Pakistan both claim the plane was in their air space, and each side rushed to produce scraps of debris Wednesday to prove their point. While both newly nuclear states vowed, through gritted teeth, to avoid escalation into full-scale hostilities, both sides have placed their military forces on full alert. Pakistan admitted firing a missile at Indian aircraft Wednesday, but said the target was Indian jets rather than the journalists? helicopters...
...fighting there in recent weeks between the Indian army and Pakistan-backed Kashmiri separatists. That?s been accompanied by a spate of bomb attacks by separatists ?- which India alleges are backed by Pakistan ?- in the Indian state of Assam. The latest confrontation has put both sides on high alert along the border between the Pakistani state of Sindh and the Indian state of Gujarat. Despite the best intentions of both Islamabad and New Delhi to prevent limited clashes from spiraling into war, there are now three fronts on which they could make costly mistakes...
...control forces also ought not to make reform an implicit or explicit attack on people who like and own guns. Urban liberals ought to be especially alert to the cultural bigotry that categorizes such people as hicks, racists, psychotics and so forth. For one thing, a false moral superiority is impractical and incites a backlash among people otherwise sympathetic to sensible gun control, much like the backlash the pro-abortion rights forces incurred once their years of political suasion had ebbed. And the demonizing of gun owners or even the NRA is simply wrong. The majority of gun owners...
Aided by his knowledge of Portuguese, which he gained as a child when missionaries took him to a city for treatment of tuberculosis, Davi has helped alert the world to outside threats to the Yanomami culture. The chief danger has come from gold miners, who have polluted Amazonian rivers with deadly mercury. Backed by London's Rainforest Foundation, Davi has formed alliances with indigenous leaders and environmentalists all over the world...
...growing movement in child and eldercare is "co-located" programs, in which small children and frail adults share space and activities. These arrangements, say researchers, help boost the spirits of the elderly, who become more alert after time spent reading to children or even just watching them. The little ones, meanwhile, seem to be less self-absorbed and more caring...