Word: alertness
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...organization and coordination by the insurgents than had been seen before. The G.I.s drove into synchronized attacks on opposite ends of Samarra, about 70 miles north of Baghdad, as twin U.S. convoys escorted trucks delivering new post-Saddam currency to two city banks. The Americans were on general alert, traveling with plenty of heavy armor...
...same time, no one is expecting the conflict to end abruptly, especially the military commanders who work out of one of Saddam?s ornate palaces overlooking the Tigris River in Tikrit. ?We expect a spike in enemy activity,? says Captain Mitch Carlisle. ?We?re more focused on alert than ever. We?re not letting our guard down...
...Associates begin trickling in from dinner, suitably caffeinated for the night ahead. Irin sports an incongruous “School of Hard Knocks” sweatshirt; Mollie carries her laptop in the hope of taking a crack at that paper; Amelia wears the Uggs she condemned in Bad Trend Alert the week before...
...operations under way [in the U.K.]," notes a senior French antiterror official. "Concern is high that attack plots may be advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities are close-lipped about their concerns, but the U.K. has been on its second-highest terror alert for almost a month now. "Given the number of operations by British police," says French terror expert Roland Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Two weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police had thwarted four separate plots "to actually cause mayhem and take...
...from controlled breeding stock and with decades of background data behind them. "People think we have a lot of very ill animals on site," says Cass. "We're not injecting animals with aids and seeing if we can cure them. All the animals are healthy." The dozens of alert, tail-wagging puppies in one large room - subjects of testing for a potential new anticancer medication - appeared to be healthy, frisky and well looked after. But at the end of any testing period, all the animals involved will be killed and forensic examinations will be conducted on them...