Word: alertness
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Tonis put out a four-state police alert and within 30 minutes the highway patrol had pulled over two students with Brown University identification driving a van with the drum towards Providence, R.I. The Harvard Band did not press charges, but the highway patrol...
Following Duarte's actions, fellow guards and some police lamented that the sort of the alert, hands-on security that Duarte provided may soon be missing from campus...
...better able to catch a price spread at night that would be snapped up faster by competitors during the day. The corporate investigators who work for International Business Research of Princeton, N.J., a firm that guards against computer hackers, can work at home because their beepers and e-mails alert them when their suspects go online. For some people, nightwork plays better to their adventurous nature: Richard Tapp, a deputy sheriff in Orange County, N.C., is charged by the adrenaline rush he feels at night, when he gets more interesting calls because "the freaks come...
...Coburn, publisher of the newsletter ShiftWork Alert, says American companies have gradually become more aware of the problems inherent in altering human circadian rhythms. Yet he observes that U.S. job culture still has not woken up, so to speak, to the need for more adaptation. Doctors, he notes, enter residency programs expected to work 36 hours in two days, having been taught almost nothing about how to sleep during the day or how to use naps to offset the effects of exhaustion. "The macho thing is very significant," he says. "Those who have been living with this for so long...
...students--teachers, coaches and even peers--who serve as the primary mental-health detectors. Teachers receive a checklist of the signs of adolescent depression, ranging from "lack of concentration" to "crying spells" all the way to "thoughts or plans of suicide." If a student matches the profile, teachers alert a 16-member team, led by Ferrugia, that intervenes by contacting other teachers and parents...