Word: alerting
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...bombmaking materials to Jakarta. During the raid, police had discovered drawings outlining specific areas of the city for possible attack by members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional network of terrorists blamed for last October's Bali bombings that killed 202. "Steps were taken to go on high alert," says one of the participants in the briefing. "Leave was canceled; patrols in the target areas were increased, and the hunt for JI operatives in the capital was intensified. But in a city like Jakarta?20 million people spread out over hundreds of square kilometers?there's not much else...
...Analogy alert! Similarly, the rest of the world surely knows America better than we know them - maybe better than we know ourselves. This is partly because everyone else looks in at us: U.S. popular culture has colonized the globe until our movies, music, TV, jeans, magazines are effectively theirs, with our accent. And partly because we don't look out. The distribution in the U.S. of foreign-language films, novels, pop songs is minuscule, irrelevant to the American masses. So when we hear something sassy about ourselves from foreigners - say, the French at, say, the U.N. - it shocks and hurts...
...alert! Ice cream is more fattening than you think, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a health-advocacy group. The culprit isn't necessarily the Ben & Jerry's in your freezer, but also the ice cream--shop treats laden with sugary toppings. They can pack the calories of three cheeseburgers and a day and a half's worth of saturated fat. --By Nadia Mustafa
Reticular formation As the brain's sentry, this structure receives incoming stimuli and puts the brain on alert, ready to respond. Meditating dials back the arousal signal...
...pharmacy handout, but the doctor didn’t tell him anything. The pharmacy handout didn’t mention anything about such a serious problem. That’s a very vague kind of handout that really didn’t do enough to alert the travelers what...