Word: alertness
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After nearly a week of "Where's Waldo?" -like guessing, the MJ Watch goes on full alert this week...
...Fine. Twins? Surprise. Triplets? How nice...I think. Quadruplets? Gulp. Quintuplets? In the range of five babies and beyond, we enter a realm of fascinated horror, sublimated into sentimentality. We call the Guinness Book of World Records and the local TV news. If P.T. Barnum were here, we'd alert him; the circus loves biological anomalies, in the way that it cherishes those stunts in which eight clowns emerge from a Volkswagen...
Hennefeld said the purpose of the rally was to alert students and to keep public pressure on administrators at Harvard and other college campuses...
...wonder. He has written or co-written several books, including a gorgeous, monster-size photographic work called Megadiversity, and hundreds of monographs on his beloved monkeys. A recent paper on a newly discovered species of marmoset, Callithrix humilis, shows the monkey at age two months: studious eyes, a tight, alert face and an aureole of gray and white hair. It looks a lot like Mittermeier, who would not mind the comparison...
...looking for that cheap ticket to get home for the holidays, you might fare better consulting the Net rather than your travel agent. This year more of the major airlines, including Continental and United, are offering special discounted deals over the Web. Some, like American, will even alert you via e-mail to last-minute steals--so log on and take...