Word: alerting
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...gadgets are an offshoot of serious medical research into how visual and auditory stimuli can affect the brain. As it functions, the brain emits energy waves in four frequency ranges called wave states: beta, which is the normal, alert state; alpha, a slower pace noted when people are relaxed and creative; theta, the level just before people doze off, when intense learning can occur; and delta, which is deep sleep...
...made CNN a conduit for governments and individuals who want to spread news -- or plant leaks. When the U.S. invaded Panama in December, the first Soviet protest was delivered not to the U.S. embassy but to a CNN crew. This role makes it essential that CNN be especially alert to the possibility of being manipulated. "We are well aware of our responsibilities," says Turner, "and we became more aware of it this week in a negative sense...
Mandela is the sole black leader in South Africa who has a chance to bring both sides to compromise. Despite his advancing years and his near fatal bout with tuberculosis in 1988, he was described by a visitor to Victor Verster as "very nimble, alert, self-confident, charismatic, not a mere symbolic leader but someone who is in touch with events." Few others possess the pragmatism that Mandela has honed over the years, which may enable him to grow from a facilitator of negotiations to a reconciler...
Allied commanders say they must stay alert because the Soviet Union still has formidable forces across the crumbling East-West divide. "Yes, communism is proving to be a failure, but the fact is that the Soviet army hasn't retreated," says General Crosbie E. Saint, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. "They have taken some old equipment out, some second-echelon stuff, but not much has changed as far as we're concerned. It isn't over, over there...
...people in Vineland have been steeped in TV long enough to become pickled. Some of them are Tubefreeks, whose habits of Tubal abuse alert the vigilant authorities at NEVER (National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation). No one, however ascetic, seems immune to this electronic rescrambling of brain cells. A member of the Thanatoids, a Northern California cult enamored of death and resentful at still being alive, notes that his people look at TV religiously: "There'll never be a Thanatoid sitcom, 'cause all they could show'd be scenes of Thanatoids watchin' the Tube...