Word: alertness
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...submarine's discovery, a platoon of soldiers was guarding the wreck. Navy special forces found a machine gun, a rifle, ammunition and 100 grenades aboard, along with a note that read, "We must accomplish the mission without fail." Two hours later, the Defense Ministry declared a full combat alert and launched the hunt. Tens of thousands of troops, police and reservists ringed an area 30 miles in radius and began a sweep through the rugged valleys...
Among those still at large, Lee claims, are three "special commandos" wearing South Korean army uniforms and helmets and carrying rifles, grenades and pistols. The South Korean military has warned villagers in the area to be alert. Well-trained operatives like these, categorized by the South as "communist guerrillas" rather than civilian spies, can travel up to 6 m.p.h. and are willing to attack villagers to get food. It is possible they have taken refuge with...
...been presaged by something dramatic--the woo-ga sound of a submarine diving into combat, say. But of course it wasn't. This was a line of dry text automatically generated by one of the machines that guard his network. It said simply, "The mail servers are down." The alert told Rosen that his 6,000 clients were now unable to receive E-mail...
...history of science has a recurring theme, it is surely the relationship between chance happenings and the vigilant minds of those prepared to take advantage of them. Since Louis Pasteur first remarked on the affinity of the two in 1854, many instances of coincidence or happenstance have led alert observers to unexpected discoveries--often while they were searching for something else altogether. Just such an event, in fact, launched 20th century medicine on the extraordinary march of progress that has brought it to the high and continuously promising state it enjoys today...
...Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite, and place it in permanent orbit between the earth and the sun. Moment by moment, ACE will sample the solar wind and, almost as quickly, relay its findings back. If a blob of plasma heads this way, then ACE will see it--and alert forecasters like Hildner that a big one is about...