Word: alertness
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...Trek in its eighth, and the slow-release Away We Go finally breaking into the Top 10 in its fourth week. That mild comedy, about a couple finding that they are way more wonderful and sensitive than most of their friends and relatives, should be advertised with a smug-alert warning, but it's the one indie movie making any waves this month. (See pictures of animated movies...
...announcement highlights the FDA's attempt to regulate drug companies more aggressively and underscores the agency's lack of power--it cannot order product recalls and does not consistently monitor "homeopathic" remedies like Zicam. Matrixx Initiatives, the product's manufacturer, refused to stop selling the medications and called the alert "unwarranted." In 2006 the company, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., paid $12 million to settle 340 lawsuits regarding Zicam's side effects...
...News website. So her calculation that much of our report was based on e-mailed comments is also wrong. It is the duty of the Pakistani press to keep its readers informed of all conspiracy theories cooked up or published in the Western media, just to keep them alert and to counter such propaganda. If our story unleashed "hysterical discussions" on TV chat shows, as alleged by Baker, that was the main purpose in publishing it. What is wrong with it? We are only trying to safeguard our own interests. Shaheen Sehbai, Karachi...
...working nuclear warheads in the world last year, 2,000 were kept on high alert and could be launched within minutes
Application alerts. The iPhone's main limitation prior to this upgrade was that it could typically run only one application at a time. Now, an application can contact you even if it's not running, meaning you don't need to be using, say, an instant-message app to be alerted that you received a message. This fix, which lets apps alert users via text messages, also means that all those cool-sounding social-network apps that let you know when a pal is nearby will finally work. In geekspeak, this alert system is known as "push notification...