Word: hazard
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...becoming as diversion-packed as our homes. Customizers have started installing TV screens in the front seat of vehicles, allowing drivers to watch movies as they weave in and out of rush-hour traffic. If you think some jerky lawyer yammering on his cell phone is a road hazard, just imagine how deadly he'll be while watching Braveheart at the same time...
...today, a man like he still is, a man precisely like the one Aeschylus conjured when he wrote in Agamemnon, ?I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.? Powers was living in Connecticut and working in New York, but it was all Siberia to him. To hazard an even more purple metaphor, his world had become a large cell. The bars were pinstripes. There were pinstripes on his commuter train, pinstripes on his subway, and pinstripes in his office, all reminding him of those damned pinstriped Yankees winning pennant after pennant up in the Bronx. Powers hated...
FIRST ALERT has three different models in its OneLink line firstalert.com $50 to $90 a unit), currently available at Home Depot. The priciest includes smoke and carbon-monoxide detection and talks aloud, announcing throughout the house the specific location where a hazard has been detected...
Every pack of American cigarettes is labeled with the surgeon general's warning that smoking is a health hazard. If a person dies because he elected to ignore this warning, that is his choice. The survivor's family should not be allowed to sue. Lawrence M. Wissler New Bern...
...villages transformed into a megalopolis within a few short years. Shenzhen is just that place, a 126-sq.-mi. serpentine swath opposite Hong Kong that still has the raw look of a city halfway between blueprint and reality. Apartment high-rises border unpaved roads, while open trenches pose a hazard to the unwary. In the shadow of the International Trade Center, at 54 stories China's tallest building, are mounds of dirt coughed up by the excavation. Construction cranes scratch the sky, the air is full of dust, and the noise is worthy of a Grateful Dead concert...