Word: sirens
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...perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles away. Fighting crime? The Advanced Robotics Corp. is advertising a mechanical sentinel that can speed to the site of any breakin, sternly ask an intruder, "What are you doing here?" and temporarily blind him with its spotlight while its siren calls for help...
...another tune to New York. It is played on a cornet isolated from one of the George Gershwin songs in Manhattan and then carried above 96th Street and out to pockets of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where, alone, it sounds less like a horn than a siren. The city's slums have also changed dramatically in the past four years, but not for the better. "Look at this," says Mrs. Wilma Burroughs, who lives in the area of now infamous Charlotte Street in the South Bronx. "It's bee four years. Four years of promises. Four years...
...they made the Bears go all the way back to the Blue Jays' 50-yard line, and the Bears had to kick a bunt. To everyone's surprise, the puck flew off course, right into the center field bleachers and hit someone in the ear. But then the siren went off, signalling the end of the second round, and everyone switched sides, just like in red rover...
Indexation, the system of pegging payments such as salaries or Government Social Security benefits to the rate of inflation, is a siren that has attracted supporters on both the political right and left. Milton Friedman, a sometime adviser to Ronald Reagan, has advocated COLAs as a stopgap to mitigate the social disruptions caused by soaring prices while action is taken to bring inflation under control. And Rudy Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, says, "Indexation allows workers to make up for some of the inflation that has taken place...
Andy Rooney is the Boswell of stuff. He has heard the siren call of an empty coffee can ("How can you throw away such a nice clean can with this tight-fitting top?"). He understands the disquieting dimensions of soap ("Most of its lifetime, a cake of soap is too small . . . It's not only too small, it's sharp around the edges"). And he knows why dogs are man's best friend ("The average dog is a nicer person than the average person...