Word: scared
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...Harvard football team crushed Yale yesterday in New Haven but for many it was the balmy weather, a bomb scare and the usual beer-soaked fun that marked the 120th playing of The Game...
...Infrared Fever Screening System, inspired by the recent SARS scare, can't diagnose a medical condition. But it can reveal in a moment whether someone is running a temperature--a sign he or she could be sick and warrant a closer look. The system produces a color-coded thermograph of each passerby: red means hot, green means not. Dozens have been sold for use in airports, hospitals, hotels and other public spaces throughout Asia. INVENTORS Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency AVAILABILITY Now, about $50,000 per unit TO LEARN MORE www.ifss.com.sg...
...Harvard Right to Life (HRL) anti-abortion campaign ought to be openly criticized and recognized for what it is: coercive propaganda. The members are abusing their club advertising privilege by employing visceral scare tactics and misleading information that is offensive to members of the Harvard community and alienating to the very people the group ostensibly wants to reach. While HRL has a right to their free speech, if they really believed that “women deserve better,” they would utilize their resources more productively by publicizing alternatives to abortion and generating an honest discussion...
...Halloween didn’t give you enough of a scare, check out “Politics and Science in the Bush Administration,” a report compiled this past summer by the minority staff of the House Committee on Government Reform. At times you’ll feel like you’re reading some conspiracy nut’s pet manifesto. You’re not, but by the time you’re finished, you’ll wish you were...
It’s reasonable to assume that students generally understand the myriad risks associated with partying on and off-campus, but the recent Rohypnol scare gives good reason for all of us to exercise even more caution. Numerous educational programs have been established to keep students wary of strangers and precarious party situations; yet, regardless of students’ high awareness of potential party dangers, there is no full-proof, practical means to ensure a student’s immunity to some serious risks associated with heavy partying...