Word: alertness
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...technically acquainted manifests itself in the need to always be on one’s toes. Learning early in my freshman year that most people do not find it endearing to be greeted with their recent athletic conquests upon a first introduction, I find myself always on high alert, pretending not to recognize those who are secretly my game-day best friends.A quick personal anecdote to illustrate this danger can be seen in my interactions only a few weekends ago. Through mutual contacts, I found myself in the room of a blocking group of teammates from one of the sports...
...lethal purse are in a showdown with a jungle beast, on the soundtrack we hear Ennio Morricone's theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but played by a Klezmer band. That's the peril and pleasure of vaudeville movies: You've got to stay alert for the next deranged, privileged moment...
After the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April of last year, colleges and universities around the country responded by increasing their focus on student violence prevention programs, like Harvard’s new “Message Me” emergency alert system...
...Even for centrists, conservatives and members of the Alaskan Independence Party, the Election Guide has high entertainment value because Moore is such a fun guy to argue with. Like Rush Limbaugh in his early years, he keeps you alert by mixing humor-tinged facts with deadpan fancy. (Why is Moore not on talk radio?) For example, he posits that the citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire, the first people to decide who the President will be, are actually extraterrestrial replicants of locals kidnapped in 1957. Anti-immigrationists should know that our leaders are being chosen by aliens...
...movie industries to curb the amount of sexual content in their products. That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics created the Media Matters campaign more than a decade ago to promote awareness within the industry of how influential its TV shows and movies are to youngsters and to alert parents to the critical role they play in monitoring and mediating what their children watch. Having ammunition in the form of a study-based association such as Chandra documented just gives the message more impact...