Word: alertness
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...changes in behavior and mood and sleep and eating patterns and energy levels." Professionals tell parents to look for dramatic changes in behavior or appearance, changes in weight, changes in performance in school. Any talk about wanting to die or commit suicide should make a parent go on red alert...
...FALLING! Apocalypse watchers were on full alert last Friday, when the moon, sun and five planets were in close alignment. The day was supposed to bring devastating tidal waves and earthquakes, but the only ruination was caused by the ILOVEYOU computer virus. Hardly a surprise; doomsday milestones have a way of not living up to expectations...
...incident in which a band of Alpha 66 members took a boat to Cuba and fired shots at a beachfront hotel. Posing as tourists, INS agents tested the irregulars' lines in the early-morning hours and were quickly challenged; they discovered that whenever the irregulars sensed trouble, they would alert others nearby; agents think they put through a call to a local AM radio station asking for more protesters to swell the lines outside the house...
While this analysis provides some reassurance to Russia, which would probably be able to deploy more than 1,000 strategic warheads throughout the next ten years, such defenses are still dangerous. With a missile defense in the U.S., Russia will be more likely to keep its weapons on high alert, knowing that the U.S. can probably shoot down some of its warheads. This scenario increases the chances of an accidental nuclear war. In fact, the leaked document acknowledges that Russian nuclear weapons will remain on high alert...
...laptop has fallen into the wrong hands--and not just those of a petty thief--it would not only reveal much about what the U.S. knows of the spread of weapons around the world, but also could alert adversaries that the U.S. is spying on them and how. Said a former senior intelligence official: "If it is Gamma, then the fact of its substance being known could also blow an intercept source. It could blow someone's cover...