Word: alertness
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...purple laser light, which in Vapir-brochure-hyperbolic-speak is elegantly termed the “Herbal Illuminative Photon Ejector,” so that the user can see the essence of plant before becoming one with it. The on-panel digital display also features a handy alarm to alert you when digital aromatherapy session should end and your post-digital-aromatherapy-session snack should begin. Future models of the Vapir even promise a USB port so that the device can interface with the Internet or your PDA. Why would you ever want to that, you ask? Who knows. It?...
...long been worried about the vulnerability of the nation's rail system to terror attack. But the threat was deemed immediate enough late last week for the agency to issue a formal warning. The alert cautioned that al-Qaeda, "possibly using operatives who have a Western appearance," might try to destroy key rail bridges, derail trains or target hazardous-material containers. What prompted the unusually specific warning? Intelligence sources tell TIME it came as a result of the attack by two gunmen who killed one U.S. Marine and wounded another on a Kuwaiti island on Oct. 8. Kuwaiti authorities...
...Right now, the Bush Administration might be a lot more comfortable with someone like Butler, whose actions were driven by a belief that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and that it was his job to get in Saddam's face and alert the international community to his non-compliance. One can only speculate on how Vice President Cheney, for example, might have greeted the news that the 72-year-old Swedish diplomat had subjected his inspectors to a program of "cultural sensitivity" training so as to avoid them unnecessarily offending the Iraqis. But Blix is unmoved...
...authors are currently asking the public to alert them to additional discrepancies in search results...
...also said the Porter Square neighborhood needs to emphasize “consistency” in the way it deals with the problem. People should refrain from giving to panhandlers and know how to alert the police to disruptive activity without relying...