Word: alertness
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...Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain to me what you gonna do?!' " Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service. Deaf AIDS patients nationwide are used to screaming, moaning and banging things just to alert hospital workers to their needs...
Insurers have already had an impact on the debate about climate change through their actions in the marketplace. Soaring premiums and insurance cancellations alert residents of coastal areas that changes in weather patterns can have profound economic consequences. With 50% of the U.S. population living within 50 miles of a coastline, ordinary people may also begin to draw a similar connection between climate change and their own well- being, should the windstorms continue...
...futile exercise, postmodern theory still has useful work to do: "Despite what we can discern in a lot of postmodern theory as the assertion of a lack of grounding... it seems to me that we willy-nilly constitute such authorities and authenticities every day-necessary." But although theory can alert us to "the constituted and contingent nature of those touchstones...it is less useful in so far as it neglects to indicate how we might construct touchstones that would work better ad in more socially and politically progressive ways than the ones we have so far." Paradoxically, it is only...
...want to alert these alumni as to what we are doing, and hopefully with their feedback and involvement we can enhance our movement," she said...
Conspiracy theory alert: this past Monday (the 21st) marks The New Yorker's 69th anniversary and is also the 29th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination. Think about...