Word: alerted
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...udder infections, and they are worried that unless milk is rigorously inspected, antibiotics used to treat the cows could find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones" and "large amounts...
...Choses de la Vie, Intersection made at least one viewer think of Blue, the 1993 French movie that's also about infidelity and life's sad ironies. There was a felt reality in the intimacy of Blue's textures, and its elliptical style kept the eye puzzled and alert. Not for the first time one wonders why American moviemakers can't get the hang of, the fun of, the higher trivia...
...carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The gas is also the most important cause of the global warming that many atmospheric scientists think will trigger major climate changes in the coming century. So a careful scrutiny of phytoplankton numbers may provide a sort of early-warning system that can alert the world to a potential catastrophe...
Regular readers of this column and of Sassy may have noticed that the new issue of the latter, which hit the newsstands yesterday, picks Heavenly for the "Cute Band Alert" box. Assuming you read FM the day it came out, it's safe to say you "read it here first." And (making the same assumption) you might remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines...
...work very hard to keep things secure," Hawkes says. All of the entrances to the tunnels are locked, and alarms on the doors alert personnel in the Science Center control room exactly which doors have been opened so they can go find the intruders...