Word: alertness
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Every catastrophe is so engraved in our genes that it's easy to conceive of the world in terms of fear, suspicion, being on alert; to dichotomize everything as if there are no nuances between living and dying. I don't say that some of the dangers are not real. Many of our fears are justified; after all, we're not surrounded by the Salvation Army...
...much tougher Israeli government. After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Damascus on Monday, Syrian President Hafez Assad told reporters that he will not commit to peace talks with Israel until he learns more about the positions of Israel's new prime minister. "We have to be fully alert and on guard," said the Syrian president. Other Arab leaders are expressing similar misgivings. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who had staked much of his political career on the reelection of Peres, flew to London Monday to ask British Prime Minister John Major for assistance in keeping the peace process alive...
...October 10, Tierney was assaulted near Mather House on Flagg Street. Two weeks later, the Harvard Police Department issued a security alert revealing that in early September a student was raped at 10 a.m. while jogging alongside Memorial Drive. The police alert also referred to a second female student who reported that, while jogging along Memorial Drive, she returned to campus because she was followed by a stranger...
...alert to your surroundings...
...those measures can be expensive, and they must be built into a system at the beginning. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, an electronic audit trail keeps track of everyone who accesses the computerized records, and doctors have the option of tagging certain records as particularly sensitive--triggering an alert whenever a request is made to see that information. Even so, the hospital found that once the system was in place, it was impractical to declare any area of the electronic record completely off-limits...