Word: tip-off
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...strict that they wipe out the serendipity and occasional weirdness that exist in Internet domain names. Take www.billgates.com Type it into your browser, and you end up at a black screen with the single word Mail written on it in green. The low-rent feel is the first tip-off that the Microsoft founder has nothing to do with this site. It's run by Dale Ghent, a Generation-Y computer-systems engineer who--just out of high school, on a lark--grabbed the domain name before Gates...
...fiction. Morris has created detailed and utterly false notes to buttress the fanciful parts of his book, which feature a fictional character, also named Edmund Morris, who is a contemporary of Dutch Reagan's. That he called the book a "memoir" and not a biography is of course a tip-off to the game...
...University of Pennsylvania's Smell and Taste Center, believes everyone should be tested regularly, beginning in childhood. "Just knowing that you have a problem will make you more careful with natural gas or make you change to electrical appliances," he says. Besides, smell loss can be a tip-off to an underlying disease that requires medical intervention...
...other nine men on the floor are exchanging gibes and handshakes around the tip-off circle, the Harvard men's basketball team's senior point guard stands 20 feet back at his own free-throw line, one fist raised...
...next nine months, East Africa went off the intelligence radar screen. No more CIA reports of terror threats were delivered to the Nairobi embassy. In hindsight, it was probably a tip-off that something bad might happen. Terror cells go quiet before they attack. The CIA thought it had busted up the bin Laden cell, but during the silent period, "the B-team came in," says a U.S. intelligence official. Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, trained in explosives at a bin Laden camp, eventually joined Fazul in Nairobi to organize the strike...