Word: alerting
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...past two weeks. Then came an explosion, "not like any that I have heard before, not a rocket or a grenade", he says. He could make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving into a ditch, where he cowered for ten minutes, listening as his friends were shot. "I could hear them crying, 'Allah help me,' " he says, "They were saying, 'For the love of Allah do not kill us.' " According to one translation of Hamdullah's account...
...escape their deprivation, whole villages are sometimes complicit in the sale of their children. The procurers, says Sompop Jantraka, a leading Thai activist who has saved thousands of girls from being sold into brothels, might be the wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. He has seen pickup trucks full of girls sold to brothels leaving from schools in what is called tok keow, or the green harvest. A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says. "A war for our children...
...Thompson:First and foremost, they shouldn't be afraid to speak up if they see something weird or out of the ordinary. To be perfectly honest, there's not a whole lot that spectators can do, but one thing they can do is be alert, keep their eyes open. Take it seriously that you're a citizen and part of that responsibility is to look out for people around you and also for yourself...
...prodded the city health department to launch an investigation. The CDC relies on a national network of sentinel doctors to do this kind of monitoring during flu season and uses a similar system of local labs and DNA fingerprinting to track food-borne illnesses. Cities and states have physician-alert programs that do the same...
...improve its public-health system, earmarking $6 million from its share of the national tobacco settlement to establish five new health departments that cover 19 of the state's 93 counties. Texas is relying on revenue from the state's telecommunications fund to wire itself for the Health Alert Network. Georgia, which had been given CDC grants to fight such problems as West Nile virus and emerging infections, decided that the best way to do that was to hire a new team of epidemiologists to keep an eye out for all these ills. Such self-sufficiency at the state level...