Word: alertness
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...CALIFORNIA: State put on high alert. State's Emergency Council convened as Gov. Gray Davis requested heightened security at all state buildings...
...ILLINOIS: Sears Tower shut down, state government buildings in Chicago and Springfield closed. National Guard on state of heightened alert in Illinois...
...back from the Palestinian-administered town of Beit Jala after a two-day occupation that drew sharp international criticism. The European Union said it brokered the withdrawal in return for a commitment by Palestinians to stop gunmen firing at the nearby Jewish settlement of Gilo. But Israel was on alert for possible attacks to avenge the killing earlier in the week of Abu Ali Mustafa, the highest-ranking victim of Israel's assassination policy since the current intifadeh began...
...historian William Manchester on Page One. His face was the image of despair--diluted blue eyes, a ladder of creases on his forehead--though if one did not read the story that the photo illustrated, it might have appeared that Manchester had been caught at a moment of alert creativity. The story, however, was about his inability to create, to write. At age 79, paralyzed in his left leg by two strokes suffered after his wife's death in 1998, he finds that he cannot complete the third volume of The Last Lion, his biography of Winston Churchill, for which...
MAKES NO SCENTS In the hierarchy of malodorousness, little babies rank pretty low. But that hasn't stopped the cosmetics industry from cashing in on all that new skin. New-mother alert: no perfume on Earth can disguise that I-need-a-diaper-change smell...