Word: alertness
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...campaign song ricocheting off the walls of the surrounding buildings at earsplitting volume. Grossat reeled off a few statistics about his town: 40% of the people are illiterate, unemployment runs at 41%. As Réunion's voters filed into the polling booths, local papers warned of a volcano alert. In the event, it didn't blow. But one of these days it just might...
While the conflict itself may not soon be resolved, there is some hope for the revival of ethical journalism. By monitoring as wide a range of sources as possible, remaining alert for bias resulting from intimidation and prejudice and consistently asserting the importance of honest coverage, we can hope to persuade the media to live up to its crucial responsibility...
...mail correspondents who were kept abreast of the bill's progress and told which Senate offices to barrage with calls and e-mails. On Thursday they made sure that 20 Senate office switchboards were lit up all day. McCain's Straight Talk America cyberoperation would put out an alert if a member was wandering off the reservation. "Literally, within an hour, we'd have complaints on the Senate floor" from the Senator in question, says strategist Rick Davis. Illinois' Dick Durbin, whose vote was in question, at one point came up to McCain on the floor and, according to Davis...
BREAST-FEEDING ALERT This month's British Medical Journal warns that long-term breast-feeding of children may increase their chances of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. The Journal said that after studying 331 young adults, researchers found those who had nursed longer than four months had stiffer arteries than those bottle-fed or breast-fed only as newborns...
...time, her fantasies are inseparable from your own internal noise. The borders of your consciousness are slyly overrun. More fun than a funhouse excursion, as intimate as Molly's soliloquy in Ulysses, it's a work that places all your synapses on a new kind of high alert. Is this the future of digital art? Then let a thousand digits bloom...