Word: alerting
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...would be nice if, when the next alert goes out, rousing the public's justifiable outrage and the media's sometimes questionable interest, it might trigger a wider, silent alarm as well--for the kids who can't disappear because they are already lost...
...provide more extensive training put into a bill permitting guns in the cockpit, which passed the House last month. A bill that the Senate will consider next month includes similar language, requiring 28 hours of instruction and demanding that flight attendants get communications gear that could be used to alert the pilots from anywhere in the plane (a cabin-crew member now must go to one end of the plane or the other to use an internal phone). And on Sept. 5, flight attendants will converge on Capitol Hill to make their plea to Congress in person. --By Sally...
...that in a time of lurking new risks over which people feel largely powerless - terrorist cells in the suburbs, underground Iraqi bioweapons labs - a fixation on solvable, specific mysteries is strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks to mass alerts that deputized thousands of citizens at a stroke, it has succeeded in bringing home a child or two. At least it's something. At least it makes a dent. Exactly how big a dent is hard to know. The statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle the matter...
Intelligence services were picking up enough chatter about a terrorist attack to scare the pants off top officials. On June 22, the Defense Department put its troops on full alert and ordered six ships from the Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, to steam out to sea, for fear that they might be attacked in port. U.S. officials thought an attack might be mounted on American forces at the nato base at Incirlik, Turkey, or maybe in Rome or Belgium, Germany or Southeast Asia, perhaps the Philippines--anywhere, it seems, but in the U.S. When Independence Day passed without incident, Clarke...
RUSSIA Chechen Ambush Russian troops and pro-Russian Chechen military police were on high alert throughout Chechnya for the sixth anniversary of Chechen rebels' capture of Grozny during the first Chechen war - and for good reason. Ten members of the Chechen military police were killed and at least eight injured when their vehicle hit a radio-controlled landmine in the southern Shatoi region...