Word: alertness
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...Chinese word for crisis, sinologists like to say, combines the characters for danger and opportunity. Despite the risks to U.S.-China relations, a small group of China specialists in Washington views the spy-plane incident as the best chance yet to alert the Establishment to Beijing's growing strategic threat to the U.S. "This basically puts a stake through the heart of appeasement," says Edward Timperlake, a former Marine fighter pilot and an author who worked in the Reagan Administration...
...rushed out when I heard the gunshots," Saraswathy, a 44-year-old housewife told a Kuala Lumpur court in early March. She claims she tried to alert police that a pregnant woman was inside the house they had surrounded. "Do you want to die? Go back inside," a policeman shouted, according to Saraswathy. "About two hours later a police truck arrived. They brought out five bodies from the house and into the waiting truck." One of the bodies was Selvamalar...
...casually realize that part of my grandfatherly duties will be to hold Jessica safe from the news, but the thought is too easy. She will also need to be alert to the news. When she is old enough, I will inform her that I am in the news business--or on the soft edges of it--and she may ask what the news business is. I will tell her that it has to do with knowing and understanding what is going on in the world...
...Look for a plethora of interactive services. Vivendi Universal's Canal Satellite and rival TPS already offer a way to alert football fans watching one game that a goal is about to be scored in another. Thanks to a 30-second delay, the viewer can switch to the other game, watch the goal, then click back again. Before long these fans will also - with a click of the remote - be able to find out where European stars Luis Figo or Fabien Barthez bought their soccer shoes and order some just like them. The Amsterdam office of Forrester Research predicts sales...
Your item on our family corn maze [TREND ALERT, March 5] incorrectly stated that we created the maze to "save the family farm." I am proud to say that it didn't need "saving," owing to the fact that for the past 50 years my parents and grandparents have, through wise management and hard work, been able to create and maintain a productive working dairy farm. Our decision to create the Great Vermont Corn Maze was aimed at getting me and my husband back onto the farm and having our kids live closer to their grandparents. We hope that...