Word: alertness
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...shows are mere lures to the low plausibility bar of home viewers. Watching them costs nothing but time. It's a different matter to ask moviegoers to pay for The Fourth Kind, a movie that's all setup and [SPOILER ALERT!], with the exception of one creepy levitation, no payoff in the chill department. Osunsanmi is so dogged in pursuing his faux-doc style that he offers hardly a glimpse of extraterrestrials [END SPOILER ALERT]. You'd do better downloading an old Art Bell show - say, the one about the guy who put an alien in his freezer - than investigating...
...usual Houses will be receiving between one and five stars. SPOILER ALERT: Dumbledore dies. Just kidding. A House gym will actually get a five today. Follow the jump to see which...
...rare. Alternatively, the Office of Career Services could encourage students to explore a broader range of job opportunities in economically vibrant areas of the South that remain relatively unexplored here. Or the dining halls could replace Nestea with real, brewed, Southern-style iced tea. There are myriad possibilities to alert Harvard students that civilization extends beyond the blue-state borders—but, until then, some of us will have to keep repeating that we’re more than just country bumpkins...
...until supplies catch up to the need. President Barack Obama's declaration of swine flu as a national emergency has only added to the clamor, inspiring folks who were on the fence to get vaccinated. "I wasn't really concerned until Obama made the announcement. It put me on alert and got the ball rolling," said Adia Armstrong, 28, who took her two young sons to the Encino clinic to get vaccinated. "Kids are dying and I need to protect my kids." (See TIME's guide on how not to get swine...
...distributing antibiotics to some 1.3 million people living in still-flooded areas in the capital and two nearby provinces. But last week, the country's top epidemologist sent out an "SOS" to the global health authorities. A medical mission from the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network was set to arrive in Manila today and Tuesday. WHO officials in Manila said the four-person team will comprise two epidemiologists and an expert each in clinical management and leptospirosis...