Word: alertness
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...other injuries and deaths that resulted when the cover had slipped off drains in other pools. In his summation Edwards used all his fabled powers of persuasion. (This was, after all, the guy who once addressed a jury in the imagined voice of an unborn child trying to alert her delivery-room doctor to problems with her birth.) "All 12 jurors kept their eyes on Edwards during his entire speech," recalls Judge Robert Farmer, now retired, who presided over the case. "When they came back with a verdict, eight or nine of them were crying." But the jurors composed themselves...
With summer at its peak, airplane cabins are full, airports are extremely busy, and security agencies are on high alert. No matter. An array of new gadgets and gizmos is on the market, aimed at helping passengers deal with the crowds, discomforts and security hassles. Alongside a good book and a pair of sunglasses, they might just become this season's hottest travel accessories-don't leave home without them...
...unusual care. "We want to hear from you when something just doesn't look right," Beatty said. "Say you're out at a truck stop and you see someone hanging out near your truck, wearing a jacket. Maybe it's too hot out for a jacket. Go back inside, alert someone and check him out through the window...
...9/11 panel has criticized the slow response of the U.S.'s air defenses on that fateful day. When TIME ran a cover on GENERAL BEN CHIDLAW, head of the Continental Air Defense Command, America's skies were on high cold war alert...
...which is no drill: Air Defense Readiness. At the signal, all military aircraft are to be armed, fueled and manned, all defense forces called to duty, the White House and top officials notified--but not the public. Next signal, when the incoming aircraft prove "manifestly hostile in intent": Yellow Alert, to set off air-raid sirens, ground all civilian planes. Final signal: Red Alert, meaning World War III. By then, bombs, and perhaps the bombers, would be plunging earthward...