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HUPD officials say the department has seen its calls for service increase dramatically since the policy change, to the point where the sheer number of alarms to which officers respond is now causing a drain on resources and response times and is even placing officers' lives in jeopardy...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: False Alarms Pose Security Risk to Officers | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...sheer volume of alarms also poses a danger to police officers who are lulled into a false sense of security...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: False Alarms Pose Security Risk to Officers | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...Romantic love versus love of the Game? No contest. The raw energy in the roaring slapshot, the primal urge to throw somebody into the boards, the sheer ecstasy of scoring the beautiful goal—to seek these is all the libido we could ever need. Romance and relationships are noisy and complicated, inevitably fraught with unpleasant difficulties. But a simple, crisp, pinpoint pass from one end of the ice to the other—executed with just a single, silent look—is nothing less than two souls moving in perfect harmony...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Putting Romance on Ice | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...Global Green Deal is no silver bullet. It can, however, buy us time to make the more deep-seated changes--in our often excessive appetites, in our curious belief that humans are the center of the universe, in our sheer numbers--that will be necessary to repair our relationship with our environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Green Deal | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...home and build up personal savings. The price tag: a very un-Republican $42 billion over five years. "Our economy must also honor and reward the hard work of factory and field, of waiting tables and driving cabs," Bush told the largely Hispanic audience. "Not just enterprise, but sheer effort; not just technology, but toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Heart Strategy | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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