Word: alertness
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...kicked from different yard lines, flashed on the screen--92% success inside the 10-yard line (the red zone), 98% between the 10 and 20 (orange), 89% between the 20 and 30 (yellow), and 69% between the 30 and 40 (blue). For Jets fans, it looked like the terrorism-alert matrix. Moments later, Stover nailed a 42-yarder from the blue zone (the end zone adds 10 yards to the distance), giving the Ravens a 2017 come-from-behind victory...
...appears that the Bush administration has suddenly awakened to the very real threat of terrorist infiltration of the U.S. through the obviously porous border we share with Mexico. That it took an al-Qaeda operative to alert us to this obvious risk is ridiculous. What has our Homeland Security Department been doing? Wouldn't our nation be a lot more secure if, instead of spending billions of dollars in Iraq, we used the money to secure our borders...
...good news is that not only does all that caffeine not necessarily hurt but in some ways it may help. Java's famous energy jolt is no illusion, improving performance on tasks and helping people stay alert. That, however, requires drinking caffeine the right way, and most people don't, loading up first thing in the morning and then crashing by the afternoon, when the chemical--with a half-life of up to six hours--is leaving the system...
...spill into the Soho street: a plump, old-fashioned bobby, who proceeds to direct traffic; a chorus line of chimney sweeps; and finally, a maroon-coated nanny who shivers on the sidewalk and seems in need of a little magic. The cause of all this commotion is a fire alert at the Prince Edward Theatre, which has interrupted rehearsals for the most eagerly awaited musical of this West End season - Mary Poppins. The nanny isn't quite ready to fly. During TIME's backstage visit a week before the Dec. 15 opening, co-producer Cameron Mackintosh is helping to wallpaper...
...Laden's Tape The videotaped message from Osama bin Laden, showing him alert and very alive, capped a week of bad news for President George W. Bush [Nov. 8]. What is this terrorist, this atrocious, fanatical criminal, still doing at large in the world? A week after the terrible destruction of 9/11, Bush stated in his typical cowboy fashion that he wanted bin Laden "dead or alive." Three years later, billions of dollars have been spent, more than 1,000 American soldiers have been killed, the nation is divided and we are nowhere close to knowing even where that...